The experience has made dermatologist Ellen Marmur more vigilant about sun protection and a more empathetic doctor.
Dermatologists know better than anyone else how to prevent and treat skin cancer. That’s why one New York-based dermatologist was shocked to discover she had skin cancer—twice.
“I just wanted the cancer off my face,” Marmur says. She underwent Mohs surgery, a type of treatment she performs in her practice where a dermatologist removes the visible part of the skin cancer, as well as the cancer cells that aren’t visible to the naked eye. The cells are removed one layer at a time and then examined under a microscope, the AAD says. A doctor continues to do this until no more cancer cells are seen.
Marmur is now diligent about protecting her skin from the sun, but she says she wasn’t always that way. She experienced “blistering” sunburns when she was a child, went to tanning salons before school dances as a teenager and would use baby oil try to get as tan as possible.
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