Local Doctor Spots Husband's Skin Cancer Looking At Photos

HOUSTON, TX -- Dr. Steffanie Campbell and her husband were expecting their first child while looking through photos on her phone when she noticed something troubling. Her husband, Matt, to whom she has been married for ten years, had a spot on his cheek that had become more prominent and changed shape. It was cancer.

The Kelsey-Seybold doctor knew the signs of skin cancer. If a mole or spot on the skin changes shape, size, or color, it is possibly cancerous. Matt, who is also a doctor, had melanoma. He had the spot removed and replaced the cheek skin with a skin graft from behind his ear.

The two doctors were surprised by the fact that they did not notice the cancer earlier. But, "If you look at your face every day, multiple times, it's hard for you to pick up changes that are happening very, very slowly," Matt said, according to Click 2 Houston.

"I think the way the flash hit his face made it more prominent and it was far more noticeable," Steffanie said.

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