“My mindset was basically that it couldn’t happen to me. I just thought my skin is dark enough and the sun can’t harm it'
Pedicurists kept asking Yvonne Basil about a dark spot on her pinky toe, but she would them what she believed herself: It was just a mole.
The charcoal-colored mark — about the size of a pencil eraser and located on the skin under that toe nail — didn’t bother her and it was out of sight, out of mind, Basil said. The spot had appeared a few months earlier and even when it grew a little bigger and spread, she still didn’t think it was concerning — certainly not that it could be“My mindset was basically that it couldn’t happen to me. I just thought my skin is dark enough and the sun can’t harm it,” Basil, 57, who lives in Dallas, Texas, told TODAY.
So when she decided to get checked out by a dermatologist as a way to use the money left in her flexible spending account, she was shocked when he immediately flagged the spot as a suspected"It was a dark spot, which I just thought was a mole. I never thought it was cancer," Basil said.One week after a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis, doctors amputated Basil’s pinky toe on her right foot to stop the cancer from spreading.
“It just totally took me just by surprise,” she said. “It just didn’t register — I can’t say that enough.”Melanoma on the extremities — nails, hands and feet — is the rarest subtype of the skin cancer, accounting for less than 5% of all melanomas, said Dr. Vishal Patel, assistant professor of dermatology at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, when
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