Joey Graceffa Discloses Diagnosis of Skin Cancer on YouTube
Joey Graceffa is sharing details about his health journey.
After more than two years of noticing a new spot on his nose, the popular YouTuber revealed that he has been diagnosed with Basal cell carcinoma.
“I have skin cancer,” Graceffa disclosed in a TikTok video posted on Aug. 8. The video showed a red spot on his nose as he expressed, “Um, that’s fun! No, it’s not fun at all, actually. You can see it right there on my nose. It looks really crazy right now because I had to get a biopsy done to confirm it was skin cancer.”
The 33-year-old revealed that he had noticed the mark on his nose “for maybe the past year and a half to two years” and had consulted several dermatologists, initially receiving a different diagnosis.
“Both doctors said it was a broken blood vessel,” he explained. “However, I recently revisited the issue because when I was in Japan, it scabbed over and I became concerned. She took a closer look and suggested, ‘Yeah, I think we should do a biopsy on this.'”