Stories

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...

Well, today I noticed a small patch of rough skin between my ear and cheekbone. Just like the time a year plus ago, near the same area. Damn. Same thing...

My first melanoma diagnosis was in 1993 at the age of 36. It was a small dark mole on my ankle. Showed it to my general doc who said “just...

“What happened to your nose?” The Big Issue seller’s question still runs through me. Mid April I had surgery to remove an infiltrative basal cell cancer from the tip of...

I treated my scalp almost a year ago, twice a day for two weeks followed by Fucidin ointment twice a day for two weeks as instructed by my dermatologist. It...

Grew up in Florida. I've been fighting with stage 4 since 2015... surgery for lymph removal on the right side, interferon, until my liver was damaged. A constant strain of...

Had what looked like a cyst on my right cheek just below eye. Dermatologists froze the spot but when the scab wore off, the cyst was still there. Biopsy revealed...

I had a squamous cell on my back. I’ve had it cut on twice. I got a call from my dermatologist today with the third biopsy result. It’s still all...

Has anyone else had a botched surgery? I'm sure that this has happened to me. I had a red lesion on my cheek horizontal level with my ear lobe and...

My melanoma and skin cancer journey started when I was 4 years old with a family history of melanoma. My mother was pregnant with my little brother when she dropped...

Almost 2 years after my husband and I moved to the U.S, I received the most difficult news that I could imagine at that moment in my life, a diagnosis...

I had a spot that wouldn't heal. The doctor biopsied and recommended Mohs surgery due to its large size in 2004. In 2017, I knew what it was; however, the...

Growing up in Miami in the 1960s has taken its toll on my skin. Every weekend my mom would take me along with my older brother and sister to the...