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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Noyce

Tiny spot under woman’s eye revealed as world’s smallest skin cancer

OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks

A team of dermatologists has identified the world’s smallest skin cancer under a woman’s eye.

Measuring just 0.65 millimetres, the tiny spot on Christy Staats’ cheek was described by the team at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) as “almost invisible to the human eye.”

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