Paphos Life

As a follow-up to my earlier post in the Geocaching Section of the forum, about a lump on my arm, I have just made the following post which I have repeated here as it may be of interest to others who do not follow the Geocaching Section.

"I was right and the lump on my arm was a form of skin cancer after all - Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

Having followed my GP's advice about getting the splinter out of my arm, nothing happened other than the lump started to look more than a little alarming. The best way to describe it is that it looked like a little volcano. It had a diameter of about 1/2" and was about 1/4" high. GP's can't be expected to know everything, the name says it all "General" Practitioners, so I decided to see a Dermatologist privately, as a return to Cyprus and other travel plans are looming so time is not on my side to wait for an NHS appointment, and I now have a nice new scar about 3" long on my arm! The Dermatologist explained that, until fairly recently, Squamous Cell Carcinoma was regarded as very low level skin cancer, but attitudes are now shifting and it is no longer regarded as such, and it has moved up the nastiness scale. Fortunately, the subsequent histology showed that he had got it all.

Just goes to show that you can't be too careful."

HiC

Good luck with the therapy!

Lloyd, thanks for the warning. Hope all goes well with your treatment.

HiC,

Hope all goes well with the treatment. Having just gone through a similar situation with a non-aggressive tumour on a lung lobe and subsequent successful surgery, I can imagine the various worries you are going through. Chin up, as with my case the prognosis sounds good. All the best.