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Is it bad if a mole hurts when you touch it?
If you were using one of those aspirin based mole removal creams on it for a few days,
of course it will hurt when you touch it. And if you’re constantly picking at it,
that would hurt, too.
I haven’t done anything to it except look at it.
How does it look?
Not quite like the others.
A mole that has been stable in size and shape but starts growing again, changes colors,
starts bleeding or has a ragged edge could be skin cancer.
It has been there for a while.
You used to have lighter flat skin there. Whether a *** virus relative or skin mutation
upon exposure to the sun caused it to darken and raise, the cells have changed from their
native state.
And you think it has mutated again into cancer.
Skin cancer is the least fatal type of cancer as long as you don’t ignore it, because
you can actually see the things, whereas cervical cancer is usually stage 3 or 4 before it is
caught if you weren’t getting pap smears.
So it is bad if the mole hurts to touch it.
I’d say so, unless you bruised the area in general recently or ran a razor over the
thing.
I don’t like the c word, cancer. How can I find out if it is really cancer?
Go to the doctor, get a biopsy.
That’s surgery. That’ll hurt.
The doctor puts a needle in and takes out a small sample. That goes to the lab and you
get an answer in a week or two.
What if it has to come off? That’ll hurt.
The doctor can cut it off or burn it off, depending on whether it is cancer, since anything
pre-cancerous should have some lower skin levels removed, too. But it is far less painful
than treatments if you wait, and it is cancer.