Call Me Shapash
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 18:42
in Health & Medicine
A pale pink, half-moon shaped scar sits above my left breast as a reminder of my youth spent at Jones Beach with more baby oil than sunscreen, doing more baking than bathing. My scar is from having MOHS micrographic surgery, after basal cell carcinoma was found in a biopsy of a mole. Basal cell carcinoma is one of several types of nonmelanoma skin cancers, which are the most common forms of skin cancer in the United States. According to a study in the "Archives of Dermatology", as of 2006, there have been 3.5 million cases a year in 2 million American people. Pick the First One read more