Need Help - Bumps on Leg Growing! - Cancer: Skin Message Board

phreddy1962 · 06-20-2004, 12:30 PM

I now have 3 bumps on my skin midway up my calf. The first arrived about 3 years ago and remained small (about 3 mm in diameter) until about 9 months ago when 2 of its friends (satellites?) appeared nearby. Each of those is about 1/2 the size of the first, which has now grown to about 4 mm.

These are opaque, pinkish-white - not too different from the skin color, cauliflower-shaped to some degree, and painless.

My mother, who is an RN, thought the first one was a wart when she saw it 3 years ago.

But do warts spread like this? And aren't they usually on the hands and feet?
I have seen photos of basal cell carcinoma tumors and they kind of look like that, though they also look like wart photos I have seen.

I plan to see a doctor about this next month. I just started a new job and am waiting until the insurance is covering me.

phreddy1962 · 06-22-2004, 06:57 PM

I have measured the bumps and the large one is about 5 cm and the smaller ones 2 and 3 cm.

Has anyone had bumps like this before? Could they be just warts?

Thanks!

Candy88186 · 06-22-2004, 07:38 PM

I think you may have seborrhic keratoses. They are harmless rough
lesions that look like warts. You get them as you age. I have quite a
few and have had quite a few frozen off.