Another visit to the Advanced Skin Center in Roseburg today for the latest results from biopsies taken on July 11th when I had my six month full body exam.. Over the years I have had many biopsies, some benign, some basal cell cancer or squamous cell cancer and most followed up with Mohs surgery. Somewhere in this blog there is a story on Mohs surgery. Today's report was different for the two biopsies, one on my right hand and the other on my waist. The pathology report for the one on my waist was a seborrheic keratosis with superimposed actinic atypia, in short a barnacle growing on a barnacle. This required freezing with liquid nitrogen. The one on my right hand is atypical well-differentiated cystic squamous proliferation. Note: picker's nodule. Not sure what all this means, but in short there may be squamous cell cancer deeper down than what the biopsy showed. Options--dig deeper or apply extra dose of liquid nitrogen and come back in six months for my next exam in January and go from there. I choose the extra dose of liquid nitrogen.
I make more visits to this place than all my other medical providers combined in a year, including primary care doctor, eye doctor and dentist. I wonder if I can get the out of pocket expenses waived if the medical world would want my old body when I depart this world and have it pickled for show and tell at some medical university? I'm paying the price now for all those days of working and playing in the great outdoors.
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