@drjessicaburgy: 🤕 When skin cancer is cut out, a margin of safety is needed, so the final scar is much bigger than the actual cancer spot. Catching it early means a smaller excision, and a much smaller scar. 🔬 Field treatments like 5-fluorouracil cream (Efudex), photodynamic therapy, and ablative CO2 lasers can target abnormal cells across a large area like the face, preventing precancer cells from becoming full-blown skin cancers. It’s an absolutely worthy investment 👀 Check between your toes, under your nails, behind your ear and your scalp, because skin cancer hides where you least expect it. Acral lentiginous melanoma, the most common melanoma in darker skin tones, frequently appears on the palms, soles, and under nails. ✅ As a skin cancer specialist, I recommend all of my patients with significant sun damage or history of skin cancer take niacinamide 500mg twice a day, which can reduce skin cancer risk about 20-25%. 💊 If you’ve had an organ transplant, have certain leukemias/lymphomas or take immunosuppressant medicines, you are at much higher risk for developing skin cancer in the future and should be monitored closely.

⁉️ Melanoma is not always a dark raised “mole”. It can also be pink, white and often flat. And it doesn’t have to hurt, itch or bleed. ⬆️ Having one skin cancer in the past means vou have a 30-50% chance of having another in your lifetime

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