We have all heard this time and time again…but is it true?

“No. ”You can do anything you want to a mole, pretty much,” said Dr. Bernard Cohen, interim chair of dermatology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. ”If you want to pluck, shave, wax, or use electrolysis on a mole, there’s no evidence that this will cause a melanoma, or any other kind of skin cancer.”

The only caution about moles, he added, is that it’s a good idea to keep them out of the sun, which means being sure to put sunscreens on moles as well as the rest of your skin.”

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