A Fox TV news anchor discovered this week that he had skin cancer during a live TV segment.

Mike Jerrick, co-host of “Good Day Philadelphia” on FOX29, was broadcasting a skin care segment with Dr. Joanna Walker, a dermatologist with the Tara Miller Melanoma Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

As they discussed the importance of checking the skin for signs of cancer, Walker inspected a spot on Jerrick’s right elbow, pronouncing that it was basal cell carcinoma, a common type 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,” Walker said in the segment.

Jerrick expressed surprise, asking, “What are you going to do to it, burn it off?”

The dermatologist replied that the cancerous spot most likely ne

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