The Cellar / The"c" word.

**Posted by fargon** 3/28/2025 1:09 pm

My doctor and I think I have skin cancer on my hand. I'm going in for tests next week.

**Posted by griff** 3/28/2025 2:28 pm

Good luck brother. Don’t delay treatment!

**Posted by fargon** 3/28/2025 2:35 pm

Moving at the speed of the VA.

**Posted by griff** 3/28/2025 5:00 pm

I wish that was more reassuring.

**Posted by Flint** 3/28/2025 5:21 pm

If all else fails, my uncle shared a tip he got from a veterinarian. Turn a container of canned air upside down to spray refrigerant on the site. Freeze the tissue and pick it off. Repeat daily as needed.

**Posted by Clodfobble** 3/28/2025 9:39 pm

Best of luck, fargon. Hopefully they just go ahead and remove it, and the testing is just for information purposes afterward.

**Posted by fargon** 3/29/2025 10:41 am

Thank You All.

**Posted by glatt** 3/31/2025 8:11 am

Good luck Fargon. Hopefully it's the "good" kind of skin cancer. My wife has had that kind 3 times, and it's not really "good," but she's alive and kicking.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 3/31/2025 11:20 am

My local VA photographs suspicious skin lesions and sends them 75 miles away for a dermatologist to look at.
Then, of course, you have to drive the same distance for follow-up and again for treatment(s).

**Posted by DanaC** 6/04/2025 1:53 pm

how did you get on fargon?

**Posted by fargon** 6/05/2025 6:31 am

The spot on my hand that everyone thinks is cancer, keeps going away and reappearing. Is it cancer we don't know.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 6/08/2025 11:51 am

fargon wrote:
The spot on my hand that everyone thinks is cancer, keeps going away and reappearing. Is it cancer we don't know.

A hundred years ago, that might have made sense.