# Woman treats skin cancer with toxic salve **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 26, 2013, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179 "2013-08-26T04:20:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/21 "2013-08-27T00:53:42Z")
Oh my gosh that is awful. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/22 "2013-08-27T02:37:45Z")
I just don’t understand how she can be so calm while her nose is slowly being eaten away. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/23 "2013-08-27T03:01:26Z")
Did you catch the line from one of the other people who referred to a picture of her own self-treatment (not linked to, thankfully) where she commented that in the picture you will see a straight red line above where she applied whatever…she said she sliced herself open so the salve could penetrate better. There is something seriously wrong with these folk. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/24 "2013-08-27T03:33:11Z")
How did the dermatologist and the plastic surgeon control themselves when she came to them with a giant hole in her nose? The posts were full of rhetoric about the evils of Big Pharma and bitching about the surgeon leaving some gauze in her nose (seriously, you burned a hole in your face and you’re worried about _gauze?_), so I assume if they had given her what-for, said “I told you so,” tried to get her committed on a 51/50, or fallen over in disbelieving laughter, she would have reported all about it. They must have bitten their tongues clean through. ---
**Author:** ![lavenderviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cdc98d/32.png) [@lavenderviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lavenderviolet)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/25 "2013-08-27T04:59:26Z")
> [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > And who are these people with multiple recurrences of carcinomas? Are they just prone to them after the first one or are they ignoring further sun damage prevention? Once you have had enough sun exposure to have one basal cell carcinoma, you’ve done enough damage to your skin that you are at high risk for more regardless of whether you avoid sun from then on out. Cutting off one area of damaged skin where the cancer popped up doesn’t heal the rest of your skin. As for the woman who burned her nose off…yeah, there are a lot of stupid people in this world. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/26 "2013-08-27T05:10:47Z")
> [@lavenderviolet](#): > > Once you have had enough sun exposure to have one basal cell carcinoma, you’ve done enough damage to your skin that you are at high risk for more regardless of whether you avoid sun from then on out. Cutting off one area of damaged skin where the cancer popped up doesn’t heal the rest of your skin. My dad is quite sun smart these days, but his doctors say those skin cancers they are removing from his face a couple of times a year are from childhood sun damage. Skin cancer isn’t burn today, cancer tomorrow. The effects of today’s sunburn might take decades to appear. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/27 "2013-08-27T05:43:37Z")
Holy crap, there’s some serious cray-cray going on thither. I clicked on \*one \*other thread based on its intriguing title, [Chasing the Dragon](http://www.topicalinfo.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1526). :eek:😕:eek: The picture isn’t nearly as bad as the thread in the OP, but the text reveals some deep-seated mental issues. ISTM that some of these people suffer from a similar type of self-harming disorder that people who are into “cutting” suffer from. But instead of bleeding lacerations, they seem to enjoy watching their tissue necrotize. And they apparently practice their self-harm under the guise of self-help so as to maintain the denial of their issues. [/armchair-psych-eval] ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2013, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/28 "2013-08-27T11:50:45Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > I just don’t understand how she can be so calm while her nose is slowly being eaten away. Denial is a very powerful thing at times. > [@chizzuk](#): > > How did the dermatologist and the plastic surgeon control themselves when she came to them with a giant hole in her nose? Doctors of all stripes see a lot of stupid and/or self-harming behaviors because they’re the people the stupid and/or self-harming go to in order to fix the resulting problems. Someone who burned off their nose with some crap they found off the internet or at some skanky “herbalist” shop showing up at a dermatologist or surgeon’s office is probably akin to urologists and the like dealing with those people who like to shove stuff in orifices that are intended only for exit of bodily waste. It happens. It happens a lot more often than the general public is aware of. After awhile, I’m sure the novelty wears off and the doc’s viewpoint is _\>sigh\< here’s another one…_ ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2013, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/29 "2013-08-31T22:29:59Z")
Oh my god. I think I need to apply some black slave to my brain to kill the cells that store the memory of those pictures! ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/30 "2013-09-01T00:56:54Z")
Holy shit, those pictures…my mouth was literally agape in horror at what those idiots did to themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/31 "2013-09-01T01:25:53Z")
A friend of mine who is a vet tech told me that a client of theirs tried to treat a tumor in her dog’s shoulder with black salve. The salve ended up rotting off the tumor, and the surrounding tissue. By the time the owner brought the dog in, it was too late to save the dog’s life because infection had set in. She said the smell was horrific. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/32 "2014-04-13T20:19:20Z")
Ok, you’d think that even a stupid person would stop before it got this bad and say, “I don’t think this is turning out how I’d planned.” ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/33 "2014-04-13T20:55:48Z")
Oops, zombie! I replied on the linked thread dernit. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/34 "2014-04-13T23:20:27Z")
Zombie I know but I am a little disappointed all the gruesome pics are gone ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/35 "2014-04-13T23:35:34Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Zombie I know but I am a little disappointed all the gruesome pics are gone Google images “cancer black salve”. I promise you won’t be disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/36 "2014-04-14T01:46:43Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Zombie I know but I am a little disappointed all the gruesome pics are gone There’s a live link in [my thread on the same topic (different idiot though).](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=720562) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179/37 "2014-04-14T02:23:04Z")
I like this > [@](#): > > I know Baking Soda cures Cancer, I have a friend who has Medical Proof it cured him of his Stage 4 Prostate Cancer. Perhaps BlondAmbition3 could relay her Medical Proof to us, keeping in mind “my friend had cancer, ate some baking soda/rubbed some baking soda on it/injected baking soda/etc, then didn’t have cancer” isn’t Medical Proof. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-treats-skin-cancer-with-toxic-salve/667179.md?page=1)