{"id":13438,"date":"2019-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-skin-cancer-melanoma-nevus-spilus-scar\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T00:00:00","slug":"condition-skin-cancer-melanoma-nevus-spilus-scar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-skin-cancer-melanoma-nevus-spilus-scar\/","title":{"rendered":"37-Year-Old Dad Loses 16-Inch Chunk of Skin From His Back After Being Diagnosed With Melanoma"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s easy to write off a sun spot as no big deal, but a mark on one man's neck ended up turning into skin cancer—and he lost a huge chunk of skin from his neck and back because of it.<\/p>\n Ryan Glossop, a 37-year-old father of two, was diagnosed with melanoma in November 2018, his wife Fallon Glossop wrote in an emotional Facebook post<\/a>. “After 40 odd biopsies of his neck and back, [one] of his lung and [four] surgeries, what started out so small, turned into something that none of us were ready for,” she wrote.<\/p>\n The reason for multiple surgeries, Fallon said, was because even after the mole in question was removed, Ryan's tests kept coming back abnormal. "The thing is, with any skin cancer, not only do they remove the affected area of skin, but they also take a boundary around it," she wrote. According to Fallon, Ryan's abnormal tests were due to a condition called nevus spilus. "It's very rare for it to transition into melanoma, but in his case it did," she wrote.<\/p>\n For Ryan's fourth surgery, which happened in May 2019, he had such a large area of skin removed from his neck and upper-back area, that "a whopping 8cm wide and 40cm [nearly 16 inches] long chunk of skin was removed from the back of both [of his] legs to cover the patch on the back of his neck," according to an interview with Yahoo News Australia<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n RELATED: This 24-Year-Old Thought the Tiny Spot Under Her Eye Was a Pimple. It Turned Out to Be Skin Cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n Nevus spilus, which is what led to Ryan's melanoma, is a birthmark with a light brown background with smaller, darker brown dots inside of it, says Joshua Zeichner<\/a>, M.D., a New York City board-certified dermatologist. “These are usually present at birth or appear during childhood,” says Gary Goldenberg<\/a>, M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.<\/p>\n Nevus spilus are “relatively common and usually harmless. However, they rarely have been reported to turn into a skin cancer called melanoma,” Dr. Zeichner says. Just like with any mole, “it’s possible for nevus spilus to become abnormal or even cancerous if it’s exposed to lots of sunshine,” Dr. Goldenberg says.<\/p>\n Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer and is most commonly found on the chest and back in men and on the legs in women, according to the American Cancer Society<\/a> (ACS). According to ACS estimates, about 96,480 new melanomas are expected to be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and about 7,230 people are expected to die of the disease.<\/p>\n It’s always a good idea to have your spots regularly checked by a dermatologist, Dr. Zeichner says, but if you have a new or changing spot, you should get it looked at right away. “Not all nevus spilus spots need to be treated,” he says. “However, if the birthmark itself has grown or changed in size or color it should be sampled and sent to the lab.”<\/p>\nWhat is nevus spilus, exactly? <\/h2>\n