Hi Gglaw,
I see no one responded yet, so I googled all I could on skin cancer and MRSA and have not come up with a connection. This MRSA thing is new and not much is known about it, so it's possible. Frequent inflammation is linked to cancer, and when we have boils, that's inflammation, so it's not impossible.

I find a lot of cancer patients being infected with MRSA from the frequent surgeries and office visits. It really complicates their cancer treatment.

Please post and let me know how you are doing.

Hi there, thank you for your response. The MRSA I had is unrelated to the skin cancer actually. I found out recently. However, I need the skin cancer removed next month, and it is in an area that I have experienced skin cancer years ago. I am wondering if the MRSA I had will infect my operation site, or can it be prevented? I need a small area of skin cancer, or pre cancer as it may stand, scrapped off in February. I am more frightened of MRSA infecting the surgical sire than curable cancer!!! My dermatologist is performing the five minute procedure in office, as an out patient. I am trying to configure a proactive safety plan against any infection of that area before the operation, such as washing with hibbiclens....the area being operated upon is a very sensitive area in my groin. My doctor is well aware of my past CA MRSA infections, I have not experienced one in nearly two years. But again, the cancer site is exactly where I have had MRSA, JUST millimeters away. Any feedback would be appreciated, really, thank you! John

Hi John,

In Vancouver, they use this photo disinfection to kill MRSA in the nose prior to surgeries. It's called mrsaid. Here is a link
http://www.mrsaid.com/for-clinicians/

In USA, I don't think they use this yet. Basically, I would want to disinfect my skin and nose, as much as possible. Bathing in chlorox (1 cup chlorine bleach to full tub of water, as if in a chlorinated pool), sit in it for 20 minutes a day probably for a week prior to surgery. This should take care of the groin area and anal area, which is another carrier site. Also use something for in the nose, such as tea tree and oreganol combination or some other thing you find on the internet.

I would also suggest lots of vitamin C (5,000 mg). It can boost your immune system and it definitely will not hurt you. Zinc helps the body heal wounds, so you can add that. Maybe 2-4 crushed garlic cloves as well, in tomato juice, with a teaspoon of turmeric and some black pepper for a few days before and while healing. Garlic boosts infection fighting by the body, and this will have no side effects as well, except you will smell of it.

You can buy silver solution and apply it topically to the surgery site as an antibiotic, and it helps heal faster. You can apply it to the whole groin and anal area or wash with it and leave it on, just to make sure.

It sound like it's not too invasive. I would think it will be fine, but it is stress, so do what you can and then try to stay calm and get lots of sleep.

Post and let us know how it goes.

Thank you very much for the helpful tips, I will follow your suggestions, as t hey make good sense to me. I will update after next weeks adventure. Thanks again.

Hi Gglaw ~ I have a very similar story. Very Similar. I contracted MRSA after a fall in jan 12' two weeks later I broke out. 6 months later I broke out again. 3 months after that the Gyno told me I needed to have a biopsy of some funky skin lesion on my vulvar area. I did. Stage 3 VIN. I have this removed by an Gyno Oncologist. She found several other areas. I went into surgery and had 6 lesions removed 36 stitches later.
The strange part is I had the lesion for about a year before the MRSA but the lesion defiantly changed over the course of time. What came first? That is the question and more importantly what does that mean for illness's moving forward?

Before you have the surgery start to use bactroban up your nose. That will help you out too along with the other tips.

Thank you all for your replys. Good news first, I do not have cancer. Bad news, I was put through an unnecessary operation on a hunch, via visual examination and not a biopsy, and this from a "specialist"! What my mysterious mole turned out to be is excessive pigmentation from over active dendrites. As for MRSA, I continue to deal with various skin ailments, particularly at this time of year when the weather turns hot and humid. MRSA once colonized ma never leave the host unfortunately, but dependign on the strain and your general health, it can be minimized with proactive treatments, such as daily dual showers, change in diet, etc... I am not a doctor but I am well read on this subject since firct aquirign MRSA in 2008. MRSA is a modern day plague first noted in the 1960s, it moved into the community in the 1990s.