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“When patients complain of lumps, they usually mean that there’s something sticking out on the skin or there’s a formation under the skin that’s lifting it,” says Dr. Lucia Seminario-Vidal, a board-certified dermatologist at the Morsani College of Medicine at USF Health Medical Center in Tampa, Florida.
Skin lesions can be divided into three main groups:
Benign – they are not cancerous and may not require treatment.