{"id":252363,"date":"2024-12-16T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/?p=252363"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T18:52:49","slug":"when-a-simple-blemish-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/when-a-simple-blemish-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Simple Blemish Turns Into a Wake-Up Call\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cFor two years, my mom worried about a small blemish on her cheek. It refused to go away causing her to be more and more worried as she\u2019d had been told of pre-cancerous cells in that same spot 10 years ago.\u201d\u00a0 – Lisa Chartrand\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Despite mentioning it several times to her family physician, he refused to refer her to a dermatologist and said “it was nothing to worry about\u201d. But when visiting her mom over the Christmas break in 2023, Lisa could see the doubt and worry in her mom\u2019s eyes. Neither of them were convinced it was nothing to worry about.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe weren\u2019t getting the referral we needed, and especially given her past history, I turned to Google to look for other resources\u201d, says Lisa.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n

That\u2019s when Lisa found \u7372\u53d6\u76ae\u819a\u5e6b\u52a9<\/a>. Lisa\u2019s mom was hesitant at first\u2014worried about privacy concerns and even just using the technology itself –but she also knew she needed to do something to put her worries to rest. With the help of her family, she uploaded three images of her skin concern and then received an AI assessment.<\/a> When the app flagged the blemish as potentially skin cancer, they followed through with scheduling a virtual appointment with nurse practitioner – Cheryl Yip.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

After examining the blemish and the uploaded photos, Cheryl was efficient,\u00a0comforting and was able to answer any questions and concerns that Lisa\u2019s mom had and most incredibly was able to refer her to a dermatologist in Ottawa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

A couple of weeks after her dermatology appointment, they discovered that Lisa\u2019s mom indeed had skin cancer but it wasn\u2019t until the surgery on her face a month later that they realized it was melanoma.\u00a0The words \u201ccancer\u201d and \u201cmelanoma\u201d sent a shockwave through both of them and it wasn\u2019t until three weeks later (a very long three weeks) that the good news came in that the surgeon had gotten ALL the cancer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Don\u2019t hesitate to get a second opinion. It’s important to listen to your instincts and advocate for your health.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

If you feel something isn\u2019t right, speak up, even if it’s just a small concern, it\u2019s always worth getting checked out. Receive an AI assessment by downloading our app<\/a>, book with us today.\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cFor two years, my mom worried about a small blemish on her cheek. It refused to go away causing her to be more and more worried as she\u2019d had been told of pre-cancerous cells in that same spot 10 years ago.\u201d\u00a0 – Lisa Chartrand\u00a0 Despite mentioning it several times to her family physician, he refused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":252344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[238,125,31,53,20,82],"class_list":["post-252363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-blemish","tag-dermatology","tag-melanoma","tag-patient-story","tag-skin-cancer","tag-telemedicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252363"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252960,"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252363\/revisions\/252960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getskinhelp.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}