The horn was 5.5 inches long.
Doctors examined the man's back and found an"enormous" horn, they wrote. It was 5.5 inches long and 2.3 inches wide.
However"most cases are diagnosed and treated early before becoming 'dragon horns'," the doctors wrote. They removed the growth in an operation, with doctors using a skin graft from his thigh to cover the"soft tissue defect" left by the horn. In this case, the doctors noted, the man had not had any significant sun exposure, had no family history of skin cancer, and was not"This highlights that despite current public skin cancer awareness and rigorous healthcare measures, cases like this can still arise and slip through the net," the authors wrote.squamous cells in the upper part of the skin's top layer, called the epidermis, where this form of cancer starts.
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