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Does this look like skin cancer

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Strawber · 16/03/2025 19:12

Does this look worrying

Does this look like skin cancer
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ClarasZoo · 16/03/2025 19:19

Please go and ask your GP- no one can diagnose you on the internet. The odds are well in your favour of it being absolutely fine but only a doctor can tell you for sure. Don’t leave it to chance though when it is so easy to get it checked, (once you get an appointment).

TeaIsNice · 16/03/2025 19:19

get it checked by your GP - my DH had skincancer and didn't look anything like this though. however - get it checked

Pippinsdiary · 16/03/2025 19:21

Hard to know, as others have said go to your gp and they will refer you to get it looked at. My partner went before Christmas with 2 moles next to each other, had changed colour and tripled in size. It looked how Google told me a melanoma would look and it turned out to be a growth and they just froze it off.

It will likely be nothing but do get it looked it

Gundogday · 16/03/2025 19:22

Had a skin cancer check this week. The doctor said that if a mole/blemush increases in size rapidly, is raised, changes shape etc, then get it checked. Definitely worth contacting the gp about it.

I got referred to a virtual skin clinic so had to send photos in first before getting an appointment. I guess they can eliminate the non-dodgy moles that way.

Sportacus17 · 16/03/2025 19:24

I’ve got some atypical mole but they’ve looked the same for donkeys years and are benign. The thing to look out for are changes. If in doubt get it checked.

FlyingUnicornWings · 16/03/2025 19:28

You have to see a GP. I got referred on 2ww for something that doesn’t look like typical melanoma (it’s not always pigmented), there’s so many different variations.

I saw a derm within three weeks and they took the mole off for biopsy there and then which doesn’t hurt at all.

It’s a simple procedure which could potentially save your life if it is Melanoma.

Good luck!

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