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Dave Portnoy says he has had a procedure to remove cancerous mole from his neck after appearing on a Barstool's BFFS Podcast with a sizeable cut on his neck.
Portnoy, 47, was asked what had happened to cause the cut, on the lower left side of his neck, by co-host Brianna LaPaglia.
'Do you have a scratch on your neck?' Portnoy was asked, to which he replied: 'Yeah, you're the first person to ask.'
'Is that stitches?' LaPaglia asked again, to which Portnoy just said: 'Yeah, cancer. I beat it though.'
LaPaglia then asked Portnoy if it was 'from laying in the sun all day and not wearing sunscreen.'
Dave Portnoy said the cut on his neck, which needed stitches, was caused by skin cancer
Portnoy said it was a skin cancer scare and he had the procedure on Monday to remove a mole
He had a patch on his neck on Monday when he celebrated the Celtics winning the NBA title
'Yep,' Portnoy replied. 'That's why I didn't go to the Celtics game.'
'But it was actually cancer?' LaPaglia asked.
'Yeah,' Portnoy said. 'It's not scary. I mean it is, but it's not. I add it to my list. I've had a heart attack, cancer and stung by bees beat it all. And it's tough to complain, I lay in the sun.
'I'm starting to get on top of myself. I went to a doctor, did a skin thing and they scrape it and one of them came back as cancerous. I don't know, 10 or 12 stitches in there.
'There is stitches underneath, on it. It's pretty bada**. Listen, you don't hear me complaining about it.
'I don't want to be like "Oh I have cancer, feel bad for me" but I wanted sympathy. If you're going to have cancer, it's the best. I didn't even tell anyone I was doing it.
'There's really obviously serious cancer. Mine wasn't. But I have the right to say I am a cancer survivor now. It looks like I got stabbed.'
Back in May, Portnoy tweeted that he wanted to go and see a dermatologist for his moles
Portnoy tweeted on May 20 that he wanted to get his moles checked. He wrote: 'I'm in the market for the best dermatologist in Miami to tell me how my moles are doing. Lead from the front. I suck at doctors.'
Portnoy missed his beloved Boston Celtics winning the NBA title by beating Dallas Mavericks on Monday night after sitting courtside at previous games.
He won a stunning $1.6million bet by backing his team to emerge victorious over the Mavs.
While he wasn't at TD Garden, he shared a video to X of him celebrating by puffing on a cigar and there was a big medical patch over that side of his neck.
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