Stories

In around 2010/2011 I noticed a pimple on my chin. I proceeded to squeeze the tiny little mite (which only produced a minute wet spot) and left it at that...

It took a year for me to convince my doctor that it was not just a crazy freckle. I finally got a nurse practitioner who was also convinced it was...

It's been a year ago this month that I was diagnosed with skin cancer. I was shocked and scared but had to cry it out and accept what it is...

One bad sunburn with a huge blister on my teenage chest (dumb to lay in the fog at the beach)! 2 years later, there was a big black mole in...

Starting in 1984 I had my first skin cancer above my nose removed. Since then I have had 13 Mohs surgeries on my face for basal cell carcinoma. In between...

I wish I had found this website in June 2022! I always had great skin even at 71. I never even thought of skin cancer and what it might look...

The melanoma growth was on the bridge of the nose, I had had it for many years. The was a biopsy taken back in 2007, and the result was sun...

I have had five surgeries for BCCs, seven other surgeries, and several other injuries that required stitches. I also have a tendency to keloid scarring and serious allergies to most...

As a baby boomer from the early '50s through the '60s and living on Long Island, I have had plenty of sunburns. I endured many sunburns going to the ocean...

I've had three surgeries, five biopsies, and numerous fluorouracil episodes for multiple basal cell carcinomas. Frankly, I don't mind all the doctor visits, the surgeries, the oozing and bleeding, the...

Last year my 42-year-old husband and I were gardening and I noticed a strange looking spot on the side of his neck. It was about a 4mm diameter and raised...

Eight years ago, I was relaxing at a resort and noticed a few odd spots on my arms and legs. At first, I didn’t think much of it. The next...

After 280+ surgeries (50% were Mohs), melanoma, and hundreds of actinic keratoses frozen I was down and depressed and had to do something besides being cut on. I started going...

10 years ago, I had never heard of the chemotherapy cream Efudex that acts on early skin cancers. Nor did I know anything about the weeks of terrible pain and...

I have been reading some of the stories here and decided to add my own. I am a 57 year old female born with red hair and fair skin. I...

Hi. Just wanted to throw this out into the ether because I'm having a hard time finding support from friends and family. It's "just" skin cancer, after all. But yesterday...

I was first diagnosed in 1998. I had a small spot on my arm that was very itchy. My doctor said he didn't think it was anything but sent me...

After initially going to the GP with a burning itching spot on my forehead and being told to be comfortable in my skin and to come back in 6 months...

This video is filled with some light-hearted humor to kind of take away the scariness of what happens when you use Fluorouracil. This video takes you along on my journey...

After having more than 15 skin cancers removed, including basal cell and squamous cell (which required Mohs surgery), I was diagnosed with sebaceous carcinoma in situ. What???? Well, if you...