A BEAUTY queen got the shock of her life when a bruise on her nail turned out to be the same deadly cancer that killed Bob Marley.
Concerned by the mark, Karolina’s doctor immediately sent to get a biopsy, which confirmed she had nail melanoma, one of the rarest sub-types of skin cancer.: “It was overwhelming because everything happened so quick. It was so scary.” The beauty queen said the infection saved her life after it led her to see a doctor, and added: “They still don’t know where the infection came from.
Cancer on the extremities — called acral lentiginous melanoma — is more aggressive than other melanomas and killed reggae legend Marley in 1981 after he discovered a dark spot under his toenail.
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