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A mum has revealed how what she thought was an innocent pimple led to her getting a chunk of her ear cut out.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Cook, 46, had always been vigilant about sun safety \u2014 particularly as a mum to two children.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got two kids who are in Nippers, so we were always wearing hats, sunscreen and long sleeve shirts. I\u2019ve been pretty regular with my skin checks,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But two years ago she discovered what she thought was a small, white pimple when she was pulling her hair back. She asked a friend to have a look. Her friend was suspicious and so she went to the GP.<\/p>\n
Immediately, her doctor realised it was a basal cell carcinoma (BCC), which is a type of skin cancer. Ms Cook was sent to a plastic surgeon, and it was surgically removed. Doctors used a skin graft, taken from behind her ear, to repair the chunk that was pulled out.<\/p>\n
It was described as a \u201cvery nasty\u201d form of BCC. It took a month to recover.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was freaking out because there was a chunk out of my ear, so I rang the surgeon freaking out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
But it healed and barely left a scar.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I went back for the results, it turned out it wasn\u2019t an ordinary BCC but an infiltrative BCC,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
This meant every three months she needed to get checked because the possibility of needing radiotherapy was very real. This lasted for a year.<\/p>\n
Last week, she got the official all clear. A spot had appeared on her nose, but a biopsy labelled it all clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so vigilant now, I carry sunscreen in my car,\u201d she said, pointing out the ear she\u2019d found the cancer in was on her driver\u2019s side window.<\/p>\n
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