# mole burned off with a cigarette

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-burned-off-with-a-cigarette/705117>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 20, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-burned-off-with-a-cigarette/705117 "2014-11-20T00:22:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-burned-off-with-a-cigarette/705117/21 "2014-12-08T11:42:35Z")

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> [@psychobunny](#):
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> It depends on whether you destroyed all of the cancer cells. In short, cancer can certainly still develop even if all visible signs of a mole have been removed, even by a competent dermatologist. I have seen it, diagnosed it and buried the patient.

Well yeah , and the scar is an excellent place for the skin cancer to get started, and hidden by the scar over the top , get to a serious stage before its noticed.

Its worse than that.

The scar is not a good thing to have, especially where the individual is well protected from sunburn by pigment…

If its in an area exposed to the sun alot, the scar can be white or poorly pigmented, hence unprotected and get sunburn lots, and get skin cancer in it… Its the same thing with hiding the cancer there, its hard to see the cancer because of the scar … it just looks like the scar has grown a little or got bruised or something.

Conclusion… Don’t do your own skin surgery and create large strange scars.

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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-burned-off-with-a-cigarette/705117/22 "2014-12-08T13:16:28Z")

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> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> You’re a doctor and an undertaker?

“I’m a doctor.” “WHAP” “I’m an undertaker.” “WHAP” “I’m a doctor _and_ an undertaker.”

Sorry, just had to channel _Chinatown_ for a moment.

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**Author:** ![Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f1d935/32.png) [@Dustin\_the\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dustin_the_Wind)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-burned-off-with-a-cigarette/705117/23 "2014-12-09T15:13:02Z")

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> [@Henryunderborn](#):
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> My posts are only non sensical, because the conspiracy of all man kinds obligated, underground cooperation, for conscience development, has run hand and hand with my sexual growth, from first grade.
> 
> I have been displaced of all active relevance, exact to the incorporation of man, to any given particpation, to life’s exchange.
> 
> derr…wer… go take your meds. people say.
> 
> I say, tell me the fact, the basis, the reasoning, of all granted contact to my life for 20 years, for it is in that exact correlation you are present, with one another, across this great planet. To that exact correlation, what I have needed, my entire life.
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> So … since it has been, my breath, my body, and my participation… why dont you… go ahead and resolve that shared fact with me… and apply your psycho channel nonsense, to those , who just cant deal with… factual reality.
> 
> thanks.

This is quite possibly the strangest thing I have ever read.

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**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-burned-off-with-a-cigarette/705117/24 "2014-12-09T20:30:36Z")

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I’m getting a Timecube vibe…anyone else?

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