Hi,

i was added to the population of skin cancer patients a couple weeks ago after an end-of-friday call about my biopsy for a repeatedly scabbing place up on my nose near my eye. Since then I just had mohs surgery a few days ago for the basal cell carcinoma it turned out to be. The biopsy said it was micronodular. The first round led me to a 2nd round going fortunately up rather than even closer to my eye, down deep toward my brain, or to my sinuses (phew), but still no fun. The rest of what was removed was superficial. I ended up with 4 outer stitches and a few inner stitches leading up to a rubbery glob packed over an open round spot near my eye. My big concern is that i've read that the subtype of micronodular is aggressive, and deceptive clinically so that it can extend out to recur again. I'm also under 40 and have a history of endometriosis/recurrent endometrioma and a hemangioma in one side of a vertebral body. Back in the back of my mind I wonder can they be related? I've had 15 surgeries in all for various things: trigger thumb, tonsillectomy, bunion, nerve entrapments, torn pinky tendon, missing tissue between wrist bones, kidney stones, fissures, and endometriosis, and was actually thinking of going on strike against surgeries when I got the call from the dermatologist telling me I needed mohs as soon as possible. Does anyone out there know any more or have experience with micronodular basal cell carcinomas? How many of you started getting treatments for bcc's before age 40?

Thanks!