Bob Marley Died of Metastatic Melanoma at Age 36: Skin Cancer Tips

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Thursday, March 29, 2007
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As the warmer spring and summer months approach, it's tempting to make plans for long weekends at the beach or days lying on a picnic blanket in the park. Especially since sunlight has proven benefits on mood, says Dr. Kishwer Nehal, a director of dermatologic surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kette...

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Melanoma
Liz
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 09:03 PM

Where exactly was Bob Marley melanoma? Wasn't it on the bottom of his foot? Hardly a place the sunlight hit very often.

Just curious.

Thanks

Toe cancer-
David Holly
Friday, September 04, 2009 at 03:28 PM

A brain tumor is what killed Bob Marley. In 1980, during a soccer game in France. The legend had injured his toe. Not ever healing, his toe nail fell off. Despite Dr. Recomendations, Bob refused to have his toe amputated due to religous beliefs. The cancer evintually spread to his stomach then lung. Marley died on May 11, 1981 in Miami Florida, of a brain tumor due to to untreated cancer in his toe