A black woman with cancer received comments about her race after medication-related skin discoloration.
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As a 28-year-old Black woman who is currently undergoing cancer treatment, Allen, to her surprise, shared that her skin is losing melanin. Saying that this was a side effect she was not expecting, Allen added that people thought she was biracial. that has amassed more than 740,000 views, Allen said, “When you have lost so much melanin, people accuse you of being.” She captioned her video, “No, I am not mixed. no, I am not Latina. no, I am not Asian. I have 4 Black grandparents.
She also shared that her skin hypopigmentation , started as a minor issue in 2022 while taking a different treatment, Lenvima with Keytruda, which led to vitiligo on her hands and feet. However, in July 2024, a month after starting another drug named Votrient, she started losing melanin on her face. Replying to @J short answer yes! i get autoimmune responses to oral cancer medications which is not ideal.
“It has been hard mentally to reconcile my new appearance with the view I have of myself. It is quite dysphoric, and it was annoying too when I realized none of my concealers or foundations matched,” Allen said of her “I find that a lot of people don’t know all the side effects of cancer, let alone what the experience is like,” she said. About her social media posts, she explained, “I share my story, good or bad, to raise awareness and hopefully that will result in more funding and research.”Allen shared in a previous video that she is diagnosed with stage 4 synovial sarcoma, a rare and aggressive type of soft tissue cancer that is mainly seen in the age group between 15 and 35.
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