TV Host Mike Jerrick Learns He Has Skin Cancer During Live Segment — One Month After Beating Prostate Cancer

A live TV segment on skincare turned into a stark public health lesson this week as a guest dermatologist told a Fox29 TV anchor that he had skin cancer.

Mike Jerrick, longtime co-host of Good Day Philadelphia, had invited Dr Joanna Walker, a dermatologist from the University of Pennsylvania’s Tara Miller Melanoma Center, onto the show to demonstrate the importance of skin checks. What followed was anything but scripted.

As Walker examined Jerrick’s arm during the segment, she pointed to a suspicious mark on his right elbow, identifying it as basal cell carcinoma, the most common and highly treatable form of skin cancer.

“It has all the features of the most common type of skin cancer, which is also very treatable when it’s caught early,” she told viewers.

Jerrick, taken aback, responded: “What are you going to do to it, burn it off?”

Walker calmly replied that the lesion would most likely need to be “cut and stitched,” explaining that although basal cell carcinoma is slow-growing and unlikely to spread, it should be removed before it can damage surrounding healthy skin.

Jerrick told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the discovery came as a genuine shock: “I never really thought it was going to be skin cancer. When she blurted it out, I didn’t get alarmed or anything. It was just like, ‘Oh dang, I should have done this a long time ago.'”

Jerrick also revealed that he is scheduled to have the lesion removed on Friday.

“I should be fine,” he said. “She’ll just suture me up and I’ll be on my way”

The news comes just one month after Jerrick completed treatment for a prostate cancer diagnosis, ringing the bell at Penn Medicine’s Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine after dozens of rounds of radiation therapy.

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