Countering Skin Cancer Misinformation!

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-06

[00:00:02][music] >> Hi, I'm a board-certified dermatologist and if you know me, I am diagnosing and surgically excising skin cancer every day. In fact, I just got out of a room where I did surgery on a melanoma.

[00:00:17]Getting tired of people coming online saying that you can treat your skin cancers at home. This is so dangerous.

[00:00:22]Seen firsthand [music] patients coming in and they saw a bad post online. They delayed diagnosis and they even [music] complicated the treatment. I've had patients who purchased Freeze Away, [music] the cryotherapy for warts, and tried to treat their skin cancers at home. Or they went on Amazon and bought a sketchy lightening cream and tried to lighten their melanomas on their face.

[00:00:43][music] This creator says she's a doctor. I tried to look her up. It doesn't look like she's a medical doctor. I do prescribe ivermectin 1% [music] for certain conditions like pustular rosacea and acne rosacea. But never have I heard of it [music] working on a skin cancer. You can see we are very careful on clearing margins, but if you're going to obscure margins by destroying it instead of removing a sheet of glass, you go ahead and break it up into [music] little shards. I have seen this where we have one tumor turn into a multifocal tumor, which makes it so much more [music] complicated to treat and to clear those margins. So what I'm trying to say is stop treating your skin cancers at home.