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Biopsy confirmed: I have squamous cell carcinoma
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@rebajay
Squamous and basal cell carcinomas are very common. Most are caused by the sun's radiation, but some can have other causes.
Most are slow growing and very treatable with great outcomes. I have had about a dozen basal cells and one squamous cell skin cancer. As a teenager and young man how, sun burn you got was how much fun you were getting in south Florida.
Now paying for that foolishness but back then it was tan, tan, tan,
Just know that skin cancers are quite common. The bad one is melanoma. The others are very treatable with many options for treatments.
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I am a veteran of basal cells. All on my scalp. Over 30 years, I have been operated on 5 times, irradiated 1 time, and treated with an immune therapy of Hoffman-Roche 1 time. The cancer is still there. The oncologist is proposing another immunotherapy. Collateral effects are of all types, and the specs say that the product is not guaranteed. Dangerous reactions are possible in 40% of patients and may last a long time once treatment is finished! But it seems to me that I have become more of a guinea pig than a patient!