Gov. Jerry Brown's skin cancer common, treatable
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 19:31
in Health & Medicine
Gov. Jerry Brown had surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma from his nose. The skin cancer is not melanoma, which is deadlier.Late last month, doctors removed a cancerous growth from Gov. Jerry Brown's nose. The diagnosis was basal cell carcinoma, a common skin cancer that is very treatable and only rarely spreads elsewhere in the body. It is not the same as melanoma, which is a less common but deadlier skin cancer.