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A member asked:
I ripped a mole off it was brown under but scabbed up the pharmacist prescribed me an ointment snd it seemed to help the swelling and redness go now its just a scar. if this was cancer woukd it be doing so well?
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No way to tell without an examination. Please see your Primary Care Physician, Urgent Care, or preferably a skin specialist Dermatologist. Speed of healing is not an indicator of presence or absence of a neoplasm
Answered 6/23/2021
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