Dr Grant replies: There are multiple possible causes for this white painless growth on your bottom eyelid and, until you get it assessed by a community ophthalmic physician (eye doctor based in the community), you won’t be able to rest easy. If you have a history of excessive sun exposure or have previously been diagnosed with actinic keratosis, Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) or Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC), then you are at high risk of recurrence of these skin lesions.
Actinic Keratosis (AK) is considered a common premalignant skin lesion that typically appears as dry, scaly, and flat with an erythematous (red) base. Although AKs tend to form due to the proliferation of atypical epidermal keratinocytes they do not all progress to SCC. The estimated AK transformation rates from large studies range vary from 0.1pc to…