Dr. Rosemary Coleman
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Skin cancer can look like absolutely anything.
It can be a little red nodule.
It can be a flat brown mark.
It can be an ulcerated area, a little area where you think, I must have scratched myself that hasn't healed.
It can be a flat white mark that looks like a scar.
That's quite a nasty one on the face.
So if you think, oh, I don't remember injuring myself there.
Why have I got a white scar on my face?
Get that checked out.
So it can look like anything and it can appear anywhere.
But it can also be a very common one, Clare, is a red scaly patch, particularly on the back or the lower legs.
Dry red scaly patch that looks like a patch of eczema.
But the secret is it doesn't go.
So benign things come and go.
Skin cancer comes and stays.
If you have something on your skin for more than four to six weeks, do not ignore it.
And don't tell me that you couldn't get to see a dermatologist.
There are a lot more of us out there.
Go straight to your GP.