Post by sherlew99 on May 4, 2015 12:16:12 GMT -6
Yahoo Health
You’ll Never Believe What This Dermatologist Found In Her Belly Button
Grace Gold
May 4, 2015
Examining patients for skin cancer is all in a day’s work for San Antonio, Texas dermatologist Vivian Bucay, M.D. — but the leading expert never could have guessed that a near-deadly melanoma would hit so close to home.
It was a spring day in May 2006 when Bucay saw flaky skin in her belly button and stopped to take a closer look. “I initially just thought it was eczema or psoriasis,” Bucay tells Yahoo Health, of the common dermal conditions that are marked by scaly skin. She took a biopsy of the shedding to see what was causing the flakes. The results were bone chilling: a melanoma had been growing unnoticed in her navel, and had now developed into stage three cancer.
You’ll Never Believe What This Dermatologist Found In Her Belly Button
Grace Gold
May 4, 2015
Examining patients for skin cancer is all in a day’s work for San Antonio, Texas dermatologist Vivian Bucay, M.D. — but the leading expert never could have guessed that a near-deadly melanoma would hit so close to home.
It was a spring day in May 2006 when Bucay saw flaky skin in her belly button and stopped to take a closer look. “I initially just thought it was eczema or psoriasis,” Bucay tells Yahoo Health, of the common dermal conditions that are marked by scaly skin. She took a biopsy of the shedding to see what was causing the flakes. The results were bone chilling: a melanoma had been growing unnoticed in her navel, and had now developed into stage three cancer.
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