A woman wants to warn everyone about the most common type of skin cancer and how ignoring the signs could lead to major surgery to repair craters in your face.
is recovering from reconstructive surgery after having skin cancer removed from her face. She encourages others to protect their skin from the sun, to prevent what she has been going through. RELATED HEALTH STORIES
She also had one on her nose. Betsy soon found out they were both skin cancer, called basal cell carcinoma. While not potentially life-threatening, like melanoma, Betsy's doctor warned her invasive surgery was needed. "Since every layer of the skin in that barrier was missing - the skin, the muscle, the plate of the eyelid," explains Dr. Sami. "I had to reconstruct everywhere back and there is no other match for eyelid tissue, except the eyelid, itself."That means she had to get creative: taking tissue from Betsy's upper eyelid, bringing it down over her eye for a few weeks to let it stretch and thrive so that she could use the same skin to repair her eyelid.
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