It was Thanksgiving 2021 and mother of three, Grace Garcia, had no idea a last-minute manicure was about to change her life.
"It was a new salon. I did not want to go to my original place because they were booked. The tech was aggressive with my cuticle...it hurt a lot. It looked like a blister," Garcia toldHer right ring finger wouldn't fully heal and within three months she knew something was wrong. Her doctor sent her a dermatologist who biopsied her finger.UCLA"She had squamous cell carcinoma. Hers was caused by high risk HPV," Dr. Teo Soleymani said.
"Interestingly almost every single skin cancer I’ve dealt with that involved fingers or nails …have been associated with high risk HPV. That is alarming - and it’s in younger patients." According to the Skin Cancer Foundation and American Academy of Dermatology, up to 85% of squamous cell carcinomas of the fingers or fingernails are due to high risk HPV. They can spread throughout the body if left untreated and an estimated 80,000 cases occur worldwide."Rarely do we see high risk squamous cell carcinoma arising from this but I have had half dozen with this phenomenon," he said.
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