Scared and confused, advice? - Cancer: Skin Message Board

Maverick029 · 04-22-2004, 03:03 PM

I've been looking on the internet lately on pictures of skin cancer cuz I've been tanning and was checking just to be sure. I found a picture of a Basal Cell Carcioma and it looks similar to something i have on my face and have had before i even tanned. It is flesh colored and looks like it has a hair coming out of it. I've heard about something else that is sometimes mistaken for Basal Cell Carcioma but I also read people usually get that later in life and i'm only 19, so im thinking its Basal Cell Carcioma. If it is, does anyone know how bad Basal Cell Carcioma is compared to other skin cancers and how can i have it removed? And will it leave a bad scar? Thanks for any replies

Rick7799 · 04-22-2004, 03:44 PM

I don't think you have a basal cell and if you do it's no big deal when caught early. It is very curable. I am 50 and I have had dozens of them in my life. Sometimes I will get a scar but then I go back and he injects it with something and it goes away. Basal cells can look different but by your description it doesn't sound like one. Mike looks like a red scaly patch, sometimes raised. It is the most curable form of skin cancer.

Maverick029 · 04-22-2004, 04:18 PM

I think what i may be talking about is called Basal Cell of the cheek. Its the color of my skin and it is raised like a pimple somewhat. The other thing i was talking about that it is commonly confused with is sebaceous hyperplasia and i am convinced that it is either or, and sebaceous hyperplasia is common in middle-upper age people. Does anyone know if there is something else like this that is not cancerous? Or does anyone know if it is possible for me to have sebaceous hyperplasia at 19? Or if sebaceous hyperplasia is caused from sun exposure?

Pigeons · 04-23-2004, 01:57 PM

Go to a dermatologist. There's no way anyone here can diagnose you over the Internet, and there's no way you can diagnose yourself from looking at pictures on the Internet. Only a dermatologist can accurately determine what it is.