GUANGDONG, CHINA — A 51-year-old man tried to get rid of what he thought was a forehead spot, only for it to return as a black mass, more menacingly than he could have possibly imagined.

After visiting the hospital, the man learned that he hadn't tried to eliminate a pimple, but instead squeezed a tumor; he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma.

The location of the malignant tumor left the hospital in a difficult spot, but doctors opted to tackle the situation through careful surgery and luckily for Xie, grafted skin from his forearm to replace the skin removed during the pimple extraction