Man with horn growing on back 'slipped through the net'
The UK patient had none of the usual risk factors - but was a smoker
17th January 2020
Despite growing public skin cancer awareness and access to free healthcare in the UK, somehow this man still managed to grow something on his back that rather disturbingly resembled a dragon’s horn.
The burgeoning lesion had been present on the 50-year-old labourer’s lower back for three years, but he had none of the usual risk factors — no significant sun exposure, no previous or family history of skin malignancy and was not immunosuppressed; he was, however, a smoker.
On examination, doctors noted an enormous cutaneous horn on
