YouTuber Joey Graceffa has been diagnosed with skin cancer
Topics: Cancer, Celebrity, Health, Social Media, YouTube
Niamh Shackleton
Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@joeygraceffa
Topics: Cancer, Celebrity, Health, Social Media, YouTube
YouTuber Joey Graceffa has revealed that he's been diagnosed with skin cancer.
Graceffa, who boasts over nine million YouTube subscribers, took to social media yesterday (August 8) to share the news with his fans.
He said: "So I have skin cancer, um, that’s fun. No it’s not fun at all actually, you can see it right there on my nose. It looks really crazy right now because I had to get a biopsy done to determine that it was skin cancer. "
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Graceffa went on to say that the red mark visible on his nose has been there for the past 18 months to two years and that he was initially told that it was a broken blood vessel.
After the area in question 'scabbed over', it sparked the 33-year-old YouTuber to go back and see a dermatologist once more who suggested he had a biopsy.
"I literally passed out in the chair when the biopsy happened," Graceffa went on. "Not because it hurt or anything but just because I am so queasy when it comes to anything gore or blood related."
A few days after the biopsy and he received the news that it was skin cancer.
Graceffa is now looking into the next steps he needs to take.
Apparently it's been recommended that he has MOHs surgery to cut the cancer cut out of his nose, but the social media star is 'really considering' a radiation treatment.
Graceffa continued to share with his 472,000 TikTok followers: "This is all very new to me and I’m not freaking out, like maybe I should be. I don’t know. I’m being very level headed about this, I think because it’s a more treatable type of skin cancer. It’s the basal-cell.
"I’m just living my positive life with skin cancer on my nose. So, just figured I would document this process if anyone else is going through this. I’m there with you."
People have since shared their own cancer experiences with Graceffa as a way of comforting him.
"I had MOHs done on my forehead it took two passes to get clean margins but it isn’t 45 minutes of cutting it’s like 5-10 of cutting the rest is numbing or just waiting while the check the biopsy," one person replied to his video.
Echoing similar sentiments, another said: "That’s exactly where my skin cancer was, and I had the MOH’s surgery. First pass got rid of it. I’m so happy I had it done."
Graceffa has since thanked people for their reassurance.
If you’ve been affected by any of these issues and want to speak to someone in confidence, contact the American Cancer Society on 1-800-227-2345 or via their live chat feature, available 24/7 every day of the year.