Ron Dicker is a general assignment reporter at HuffPost. He has covered sports, entertainment and many other beats in his journalism career, and has lived in New York City for more than 20 years.
Brinkley included photos of the facial wound left by the extraction of the basal cell carcinoma lesion, the sutures afterward and the bandaging in her Instagram post.Brinkley, 70, said she was “lucky” to be diagnosed in the first place. She was at the doctor for her daughter’s appointment and asked him at the end to examine a small protrusion she felt as she applied makeup. “He took a look and knew immediately it needed a biopsy! He did it then and there!” she wrote.
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