BLACKSBURG, Va. (WDBJ) – When you think about skin cancer detection, you probably think of a doctor’s office.
But for some people, the first warning signs are spotted in a salon chair. That’s something dermatology nurse practitioner James Caleb Runyon is seeing more and more in his practice.
“I had several patients over the course of a few months, three months or so. That said, my hairdresser noticed the spot on my scalp and it’s changing. Let’s check it out. And oftentimes more times than not, it was malignant; it was Beso cell carcinoma, or squamous cell carcinoma or even melanoma,” said Runyon…