'TikTok saved my life,' user says after viewers tipped him off to problem mole.
A California man says social media might have saved his life.
Alex Griswold, 24, says that after he posted a lighthearted video on TikTok last month, viewers urged him to have the mole on his back checked out by a doctor.video warned him that the mole looked cancerous. On Friday, Griswold posted new content to the short-video sharing app in which he says,"Because of two kind strangers I avoided skin cancer."The software developer with nearly 476,000 TikTok followers said a week after viewers noticed the irregular growth, he went to a dermatologist who performed a biopsy. A week later, he was told it needed to be removed. On Tuesday, he had the mole and an area around it cut out, he said.
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