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Treatment of Basil cell carcinoma
Melanoma & Skin Cancer | Last Active: Jul 9 2:35pm | Replies (11)Comment receiving replies
I also am the red head, freckles and blue eyes who worshipped the sun growing up and early 20’s. Baby oil and all. Who knew!! And yes ‘actinic keratosis’ is just a fancy name for sun damage be it BCC, SCC or Melanoma. Never overlook the spots no matter how innocent they look. After going through the chemo cream treatment on my face, I’ll take the liquid nitrogen.
It’s all in what our pain level.
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@jpeters6930 Another one here with redhead, and blue eyes.
I have had the freezing with liquid nitrogen. Initially very painful, need to keep it a bit moisturized as it heals/peels. Also the fluorouracil topical cream. As was explained to me, the topical is going to cause a reaction at the location of the bad areas, whether or not you put it on there! As @slarson14 commented, either treatment can cause uncomfortable responses from us. In my mind, that means it is working!
Next week I go in for MOHS procedures on squamous cell areas contained within both eyebrows, that are not responding to liquid nitrogen to stop them. The result will be interesting to see; may need to get my bestie's daughter involved to show me how to make it look like I have eyebrows!
Ginger