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XanaDUer2

(15,741 posts)
Sat Apr 22, 2023, 09:27 PM Apr 2023

Pre-cancer frozen off my face

Above my left eyebrow. I'm a melanoma survivor since 2010. I knew the red lesion above my left eyebrow was NOT eczema. No, squamous pre-cancer. Asked it to be frozen off; not cream.

Spent so much time in the sun in the 70s.

Now I'm older, the cancers are coming out.

Cancer. I hate it.

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Pre-cancer frozen off my face (Original Post) XanaDUer2 Apr 2023 OP
I've had a few barnacles frozen but then, earlier this year, Deuxcents Apr 2023 #1
I grew up in Miami XanaDUer2 Apr 2023 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Deuxcents Apr 2023 #3
Texas Sun No Sun Screen dem in texas Apr 2023 #4

Deuxcents

(22,208 posts)
1. I've had a few barnacles frozen but then, earlier this year,
Sat Apr 22, 2023, 09:37 PM
Apr 2023

I had two scooped out of my leg that were cancer. I got lucky for a long time because, I, too, was a sun bunny for years and growing up in Florida, we never heard of skin block when I was a kid. These days, I head for the shade..lessons learned

XanaDUer2

(15,741 posts)
2. I grew up in Miami
Sat Apr 22, 2023, 09:44 PM
Apr 2023

Bizarely, my worst sun exposure was on beaches in Queens, ny in the Summer.

Response to XanaDUer2 (Reply #2)

dem in texas

(2,681 posts)
4. Texas Sun No Sun Screen
Sun Apr 23, 2023, 12:41 AM
Apr 2023

Spent hours out in summer sun. Had two places removed from my face, first one, I was blaming on my glasses rubbing my nose. My mother came up for a visit and had a fit when she saw the place and I told her it wouldn't heal. She told me to get to skin DR. ASAP which i did, it was cancer, had it removed. Had another a few years later, did not wait went to DR it was also cancer So far no more.

I am an 8 year stage 3 breast cancer survivor - Gals, get those mammograms!

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