What are the nonmelanoma warning signs?
There are numeral legions that occur on the skin, most of which are benign. When we ask patients to let us know those legions that they're concerned about, that they're worried about, or those legions to bring into a doctor, we're asking a rather sophisticated question: which is to differentiate between all the little bumps and lumps on your skin, and those that are okay, and those that are not okay. Primarily any legion which crusts or bleeds or is persistent or is getting bigger over time and does not look like any other legion on your skin, those are strong warning signs for a legion which needs to be brought to a doctor's attention. We normally see these things, malignancies, on sun-exposed areas, so since 90% of skin cancers occur on the head and neck that would be a common place to look for them. But in any sun exposed areas, such as the arms, the hands, the lower legs as well.