For years, Maria Sylvia thought the streak on her nail was a mole, and she said she 'wasn't concerned' — but a biopsy revealed it became a subungual melanoma, and her nail needed to be removed
In high school, Sylvia played a lot of sports so when the tan streak appeared on her right thumbnail she thought maybe it was a blood blister or a bruise. When she visited a podiatrist for an ingrown toenail, the doctor recommended that Sylvia visit a dermatologist to have it examined.
“She saw a picture that looked like my thumb and so she sent it to me, ‘You need to get this looked at,’” Sylvia said. “It’s almost like you don’t want to face it at that point because it’s scary.”“I owe it to my co-worker for creating a voice in the back of my head to get it looked at,” Sylvia said.“He wasn’t even concerned. He was like, ‘Oh I don’t think it’ll be that,’” Sylvia said. “I’m like ‘OK, well I still want to get this biopsy done.
Dermatologist Dr. Muneeb Shah is known as the "Derm Doctor" on TikTok, where he shares tips to safely care for your skin and prevent cancers. After getting skin cancer himself, Shah urges others to avoid tanning beds. "I went to the tanning bed hundreds of times," says Shah." Now that I know what I know today, I obviously wouldn't do that."A subungual melanoma is a skin cancer that form in the finger or toe nailbeds.
“Vibrations can stimulate pigment production. That trauma can start stimulating the production,” Friedman explained. “The difference here is you would ... see multiple nail streaks. There shouldn’t be just one.”
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