(spoilers!) here's how to win: everything is cancer, except the common moles and the keratoses.
OP, what are some of the other common options for a spot on the body aside from common moles, cancer, and keratoses? Solar lentigines, freckles, bug bites, eczema? I'm also curious what the actual chance of cancer is given a random mole anywhere on the body, obviously a more involved question.
Good observations! But hopefully you learned something in coming to those conclusion...
The chance of a random skin lesion being skin cancer is extremely low. Apart from the appearance key things to look for are a lesion that is not going away particularly if it is changing in appearance.
Here are some other common skin lesions:
- Dermatofibroma (harmless skin growth)
- Actinic keratosis (sun damage)
- Milium
- Comedome
- Acne pustule / nodule
- Viral wart
- Molluscum contagiousum (harmless viral growth)
- Cherry angioma (harmless blood vessel growth)
- Spider naevus (another type of blood vessel growth)
There are more than 2000 diagnoses in dermatology so not an exhaustive list!
OP, what are some of the other common options for a spot on the body aside from common moles, cancer, and keratoses? Solar lentigines, freckles, bug bites, eczema? I'm also curious what the actual chance of cancer is given a random mole anywhere on the body, obviously a more involved question.