Last December, Sarah Eggenberger noticed a small red spot on the left side of her nose.

“(It) almost presented itself like a broken capillary or an aging spot,” the 48-year-old TODAY contributor and NewBeauty senior editor-at-large tells TODAY.com. “Concealer could cover it if I truly wanted it to — and you can deny something for a long time through concealer.”

She visited a dermatologist, who didn’t think it was worrisome and used a laser to try to remove it. But the spot remained, so Eggenberger visited another doctor and asked for a biopsy.

That’s when she learned she had morpheaform basal cell carcinoma, a more aggressive form of basal cell carcinoma.

“If I would not have had this tested by a second dermatologist, it would have traveled to my eye, and that would have been a very di

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