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Hi, I just found this forum which I think is amazing so thank you everyone for sharing/helping After many years (over 15) mentioning to nurses and GPs that I had something on my eyebrow that didn't feel right and being told it was nothing. When insisted...
Hello On the 26th of August I am having a bcc removed from my back. I believe I will be having a general anaesthetic but I haven't been given any information whatsoever about what happens or any issues that I need to be aware of, before or after surgery...
Hi all. I have had a lesion on my nose for over a year now, got told it was a spider vein but over a period of months it changed - it had a lump forming ontop of it. I went back to the doctors and told them that i had sent a photo into ChatGPT and...
Is there anyone around my age dealing with this? I feel so isolated, and the people I have spoken to with this condition, while lovely, are nowhere near my age and don't really understand the challenges I'm facing at this stage in life. I don't have...
Hi everyone Diagnosed last year with Bowens Disease, which was treated. Now 8 months later, I haven been diagnosed with BCC. Luckily, for me, I signed up to work private health care and will be seeing a dermatologist in September. However, I feel...
I have been refered to dermatology by my dr. Letter as follows: would be grateful for your review of this 42-year-old lady who has noticed a few skin lesions on her left cheek and one on the tip of her nose. These are few millimetres in size with skin...
Hello, In may my partner noticed what looked like a cigarette burn on my back and took a picture so I could see it. I just presumed I'd caught my self on something at some point and dismissed it. At the beginning of July I noticed it had scabbed so...
Hi I’ve just been told that my squamous cell cancer has metastasised to my lungs, and I will be having immunotherapy. has anyone had experience of this and how was the side effects
Hi , I had a small BCC on forehead for about 2years , I had the pictures taken at the hospital. I thought I was seeing a dermatologist appointment so did all my research an had it in my head I would get MOHs surgery. When I arrived it happened so quickly...
Hiya, On July 21st I went to the doctor to get two lesions checked. She referred me on the urgent skin cancer pathway to get them checked by dermatology (she was concerned about one of them on my forehead possibly being a basal-cell.) but she said she...
