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Squamous cell cancer is painful and growing fast!
I was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer (at the hairline on my forehead) on May 20th. A biopsy procedure removed the raised spot but the doctor didn’t tell me what stage it was. She recommended MOHS surgery but I wasn’t able to secure an appointment until August. In the meantime, my spot has grown back twice as big and it’s very painful. Wish I could attach images; you wouldn’t believe how fast and furiously it’s grown back.
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@dorycheeto: I'm thinking what they may have meant was the individual lesion hadn't spread but there's potential there could be other lesions elsewhere at some point point in the future, as there is always the possibility of additional skin carcinomas appearing. That's one of the reasons frequent skin checks are so important, especially as as we age.
Does that make sense?
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I got a little sick reading your story...I had the same on my hairline 2 years ago and stubbornly put off the mohs. I'd had many scc's over the years and mohs but this one was different. quarter sized, white puffy raised skin. My dermo called me 3 x and begged me to get it done. I went to Mayo in Jacksonville and was in the chair for 7 hours digging and digging! Finally no margins but dr. said I should have radiation to reduce chance of coming back. Guess it scared me so I did have radiation on that site, 20 treatments. But months later another started over my ear, this time a lump under skin, not a breakout. Also SCC and it required head and neck surgeon to remove plus another 20 rounds of radiation on that site. After that was done I agreed to start Libtayo immunotherapy which I've now been doing for a year and will do for another year. I did have some cancer migrate to a lymph node and it was treated with an injection of ethanol which killed all the cancer cells in that node. I'll probably be doing scans for a long time to make sure this is under control. I'm now 76 and in otherwise great health.
@louisejewell That is quite the history. And once again, shows that we can each have so many types of treatment and presentation of squamous cell skin cancer.
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