Cancer Diary: Skin Cancer Signs
While there have been some posts on skin cancer before, what is new in this article, The #1 Early Sign of Skin Cancer Most People Miss, According to Dermatologists (msn.com) , is the new discoloration that appears and gets dismissed. That is precisely how I found my skin cancer: a discoloration that most people assumed to be an age spot next to my eye that for some reason most had thought to have been there for a while, but it was not. I saw it appear. I asked the Skin Institute to have it looked; there was a three-month wait for an appointment. I asked to be on a wait list and, lo, they were able to get me in within three weeks. "No, clearly not cancer," said the doctor. "I should be able to freeze it off, but let's take a couple biopsies--a slice and a puncture--just in case." Now, I was not in a hurry for any kind of biopsy since all my biopsies have to be done without painkiller, to which I am severely allergic. But, of course, it had to be biopsied. A ...