Skin Cancer

[Trev]

I will forever more see Boris Yeltsin whenever cranky posts something.
Make a great avatar.

[Trev]

And where'd you get that photo of skipper at the top?

[Cranked]

No, no! More like this:

[Cranked]

Or this:

I'm thinking richie lovett style

[Beanpole]

I can see you in one of those cranky. Andy Capp style caps. You're not wearing it in the surf are you?
I've got one I bought a couple of years ago at Lithgow Ironfest. Haven't worn it out of the mountains though.

I've got a 20c coin size divot between my shoulder blades from a BCC. Went to the specialist about something else that turned out to be the zipper on my wetsuit rubbing on a mole.

[Trev]

Had a scrape biopsy done on this evil looking thing on my upper arm a week ago.

Results yesterday.

All good.

Benign lichenoid keratosis.

I've had plenty of BCCs and SCCs over the years but this thing looked scary.
Dodged a bullet, again.

I figure one day I won't.

[Trev]

Mate had something cut out of his back last week.

Also benign.

And he's a red-headed Scot.

[BA]

Good news Trev.

[alakaboo]

Just had my first malignant* skin cancer cut out.
BCC, upper arm.

*Probably malignant, I don't fcuk around with biopsies, just get them to remove anything suss.

I'm in my 30s. Get your skin checked.

[Trev]

BCC!
SCC!
I've had both.
Agree. Don't fcuk around with them.
Got my annual skin check this afternoon.

[Over55yrs]

Just had a SCC on my nose done by a cosmetic surgeon (this was the third go at getting rid of it) - 5 weeks out of the surf

[offshore1]

Good luck >55, cnut of a thing that comes with being a brine brother.

[Trev]

BCC!
SCC!
I've had both.
Agree. Don't fcuk around with them.
Got my annual skin check this afternoon.

All clear thankfully.
Hope the healing goes well over 55s

[Beanpole]

The missus just had one cut out of her back. I've had one on my back and something called Bowens Disease? on my arm. They scraped that. It wAs apparently low depth but spread out. Hadn't heard of that one.

They were saying in an article about skin cancer in the SMH a while ago that if you got BCCs you had less chance of getting melanoma.

[Trev]

Bowen's disease is SCC.
Must be more than one type though. Apparently slow growing.
The couple of SCCs I've had have developed very quickly. Like within a few months.

[Trev]

Can't find any reference about reduction of risk of melanoma through BCCs.
But this is good info.

https://www.cancer.org.au/about-cancer/ ... anoma.html