Anyone here ever had skin cancer removed?

Yes, I had the same on my ear. Same surgery. They took a big chunk out, then cut a chunk out the back of my ear to replace the chunk. About the size of a quarter. Hurt like a mofo for a week or so. That was last October. Good now.

Yep, I went on a rant about using sun screen. Posted about this crap when I had the surgery.

You're lucky. I started getting annual skin cancer screenings two years ago. No cancer, but I have had a lot of sun exposure over the years between the beach, lake, and snow skiing.

My wife has. She's very white, never got into the laying out to get a tan when she was young.

That was about 20 years ago, hasn't had a recurrence. Has about a 4 inch scar on her back from where they carved it out.

She gets on to me all the time because I never use sunscreen, even though I used to play golf 6-7 days a week.

Course I'm naturally red

I have had MOHS on forehead, nose and near mouth. Not fun. You will be bandaged up, hiding in your house like the Elephant Man for a week or two, but in a year you won't notice the scar.

I had a stage 0 melanoma removed from my arm last year. Of course, I now wear sunscreen daily. One other thing I'd recommend is one of those white nylon long-sleeved shirts to wear while swimming or boating. I got one from Academy.

Pretty much this. I wear a long sleeve nylon fishing shirt and a big hat when out in the boat. I look like a Star Wars sand person but it beats the hell out of getting cut on.

I work in dermatology and could possibly answer questions for you if you had any. Hopefully they were all answered for you already. Wear your sunscreen and get your annual full body skin exam people!!!

Like others in this thread, I've had MOHS multiple times. None of the surgeries hurt or caused pain but one was by a blood vessel in my temple and I bled like a stuck pig when the surgeon nicked it. There were two bad parts - they finish a round of shaving and then have you wait all bandaged up until they can say whether they got it all. If not, you go back and they repeat the procedure until they're satisfied. The other bad part was hiding out for a while with bandages on my face.

Basal cell is not bad but it is a red flag. Whether the dermatologist recommends it or not, ask to schedule full body scans every 6 months. When you go to the scans, tell the examiner that you want them to be very cautious and remove anything that they have doubts about.

I definitely take precautions in the sun now but my first MOHS surgeon, who was one of the earliest adopters of the process in DFW, basically said that these things are from damage that was done 30 years ago. So make sure to protect your kids too.