After stage 4 melanoma diagnosis, treatment, William Shatner shares new outlook on life
Source: Healio, March 2024
Key takeaways:
- Actor William Shatner shared his melanoma story with attendees of the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting.
- Shatner recalled “the care and love a doctor can give a patient in that moment.”
SAN DIEGO — Actor William Shatner still vividly recalls the moment he learned a simple lump under his right ear, initially dismissed, was in fact cancer, and how concern from a caring physician likely saved his life.
“I’m breezing along looking good and feeling good and I noticed a lump on the side of my right ear,” Shatner, most famous for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, said during a keynote presentation at the American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting. “I went to my family doctor, who said the parotid gland was probably jammed up, and to just massage it and it will go away.”