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I have history of many skin cancers, basal and squamous and currently have a forehead flap to my nose for invasive squamous that grew in 4 weeks. I have another Mohs scheduled in couple weeks to hairline for another squamous. My doctor says I have the...
I'm feeling really upset because for the past 3 years I've supported my husband through a very serious illness, culminating in me donating a kidney to him in April this year, 2021. But now I've found this lump of skin on my face & it's been growing &...
Does anyone else here have stage 4 basal cell carcinoma?
I recently had a consultation for BCC on the nose and the doctor gave me a leaflet with information about taking vitamin B3 to help prevent occurrence of basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. I've posted a link below to an article which covers the research...
My husband was diagnosed 2 months ago, he's only able to swallow liquids, the hospital is taking about putting a feeding tube into his stomach, can anyone give me some advice on this
Hello - been diagnosed with bcc on my cheek and had first treatment of photodynamic treatment last week - pretty painless and healing extremely fast . In fact unable to see much at this moment. just wondering if anyone else was diagnosed first with...
Can I share pictures here ? , nobody I know wants to see mine and I just felt I need to share it as nobody understands how bad I feel about it
Hello from a 38 y/o female with diagnosed stage 2 skin cancer in a mole on my thigh. It’s only been a few months from diagnosis of the removed mole to my surgery on 19/11. I had a wider excision of the original site of the mole and 3 lymph nodes were...
I’m wondering if anyone can help. I attended the dermatologist 2 weeks ago after being referred by my GP because of a 30mm area on my back. The dermatologist diagnosed a BCC and then completed Cryotherapy using liquid nitrogen, I’ve to return in 3 months...
Hi all, at the beginning of this year I had the scariest experience of being diagnosed with a mole that was on the extremely last stage of becoming Melanoma and we were lucky to catch it when we did. I know I should say it was scary because I’m sure...
