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Yup - that’s what it is and we each have one. I didn’t think I had any but the normal interactions with mine - an occasional cut, burn, or blemish. Then I noticed a growth. Removed. Sent to the pathologist. Report returned. Possible skin cancer. Surgeon goes a little deeper and into normal skin and sews me up. New pathology report: normal tissue. My private oncologist (my baby daughter specializes in cancers) tells me that even if it was a squamous cell carcinoma, there is nothing to worry about. I don’t anyway. I’m not a worrier. The result, however, was to make this topic a little more fascinating to me, a little more personal. Why did I get this thing? Probably because I’m immunosuppressed to keep my kidney transplant but did having diabetes play any role?
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Kolff, W.J., Scribner, B.H., Starzl, T., Friedman, E.A. (1998). Skin. In: Strength and Compassion in Kidney Failure. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5296-9_16
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