Doctors have been able to detect the world's smallest skin cancer on a woman's cheek in Portland, Oregon. The cancerous 'spot' is only 0.025 inches (0.65 millimeters) long and barely visible to the naked eye.
Following a thorough examination, a team of dermatologists at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) confirmed that this tiny spot on the cheek was, in fact, a melanoma — a type of skin cancer.
With this confirmation, the OHSU team's "smallest detected skin cancer" has made its way to the Guinness World Record.
Confirming the micro-skin cancer was a difficult task for doctors, who used cutting-edge non-invasive technology to reach this conclusion.
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