‘Your ear looks funny’: Dad given potentially deadly diagnosis after child points out spot
Source: 7NEWS.COM.AU, May 2021
Of all the places melanoma can lurk on the body, Alexander Gupman’s skin cancer showed up on his ear.
He’d been watching the spot for years, a mole-like growth on the cartilage near his left ear canal, but it didn’t seem to change so doctors weren’t concerned.
In 2020, the first year he’d skipped his annual skin check because of the coronavirus crisis, a seven-year-old friend of his daughter looked at him and said, “‘Your ear looks funny, Alex.’”
