DEAR DR. GOTT: A dear friend of mine had a large black mole on his face. He asked his doctor and a surgeon to remove it by freezing it. One month later, he felt sick and had a liter and a half of fluid taken out of the sack around his heart. There was blood in the fluid, and cancer was diagnosed. Could this have been caused by not biopsying and having surgical removal of what turned out to be a melanoma? He died in one month.
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Skin cancer, cardiac cancer possibly related
September 23, 2010 By