Skin cancer ??

[Jayde_96]

On the top of my chest I have a small flesh coloured raised lump. It's been there for a good three maybe more years. I've been reading up online and it's said it's skin cancer?? I remember showing my GP once and she said it looks like a skin lesion or a scar and told me not to worry?

[Agora1]

Hi Jayde_96, it's true in what your GP told you. A Keloid can form from a scar. It's the body's way of trying to restore itself. I think if you are concerned you should have a Dermatologist take at look at it.

[Jayde_96 in reply to Agora1]

Hi @Agora1 thankyou for responding it must have suddenly came up one day it's been on my chest for a long time now, wearing a necklace tends to aggravate it

[Agora1 in reply to Jayde_96]

Exactly, my mother had the same thing for years and the dermatologist removed it. Same thing, a necklace aggravated it. Hope this alleviates your fears.. x

[Jayde_96 in reply to Agora1]

Ah thankyou yeah I've recently started doing some subbed sessions just to get my skin ready for holiday in a few weeks time (I wouldn't use them any other time) so it's been a bit scary x

[Hidden]

Hello, my reply is a bit late and you have a very good reply already.

However, I do agree a dermatologist should examine you. Do you have any other similar small lesions or "lumps" ,etc. anywhere on your body?

I live in Florida, and many, many people move here but were raised in other parts of the US and didn't use much sun proection in their younger days.

Skin cancer can look like the "lump" or "scar" you wrote about.

So even if you weren't really thinking about seeing a dermatologist about removing it, perhaps you should go just to make certain it's not a skin cancer.

I had what I thought was a mole. It was removed by a plastic surgeon because it was a cancer suspect. (Verified by the lab after it was removed.)

GPs are such good doctors, but can't always know everything about skin cancer. My husband is from a northern state, and while his GP checks him every year, he had mistaken a rather serious spot several years ago as nothing to be concerned about. I strongly encouraged (nagged) my husband to see a dermatologist, now he is scheduled for a number of radiation sessions to kill the basel cells.

The dermatologist took a sample the spot first and sent it to a lab to verify his concern that it was cancerous.

I am not an alarmist, and I am not telling you this to frighten you. It's just that I have lived in Florida for over 35 years, and skin cancer is rather common here in our mature years as many people retire here from other states......but the skin cancer was caused by sun exposure in our youth, and sun protection is still cautioned now for us here at any age.

In any case, it won't hurt to see the dermatologist about removing it if you were thinking about doing that. That doctor can have a lab verify his opinion on the matter. My best to you to many years of lovely necklaces!

[Jayde_96 in reply to Hidden]

Hey thankyou for your reply I live in the U.K. And I'm 20 yrs old. It's only that one lesion it hasn't spread, if I remember correctly when it first came up it used to shrink and then come back up now it's kinda just stayed at the size it is x