A TV personality was astonished when a dermatologist told him he had skin cancer live on air.

Mike Jerrick, co-host of Fox News’ Good Day Philadelphia, learned he had skin cancer when a dermatologist appeared on the air and noticed a suspicious-looking lesion on his elbow and ‘blurted it out’ unexpectedly.

Doctor Joanna Walker of the Tara Miller Melanoma Center at the University of Pennsylvania informed Jerrick that the area has ‘all the hallmarks of the most frequent type of skin cancer.’

Skin cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in the United States, with one out of every five people developing it by the age of 70.

In the United States, two people die from cancer every hour; nevertheless, the Skin Cancer Foundation reports that melanoma has a 99 percent survival rate when identified early.

“So this is a basal cell skin cancer,” Dr. Walker stated, inspecting his arm attentively, to which a surprised Jerrick replied, “It is?”

Fortunately, he appears to have a slow-growing type of skin cancer that is very curable.

She informed Jerrick that he could get the area removed, to which the perplexed host asked, “What are you going to do?” Burn it off?”

“This one probably needs to be cut and stitched,” she told me.

“What!” Jerrick seemed surprised. “And then stitch me up?”

Dr. Walker went on to explain that this is a slow-growing kind of skin cancer that will not spread to other parts of your body.

“But it needs to be removed so it doesn’t keep growing and taking over normal skin.”

“Oh, good lord,” Jerrick said before informing Fox News viewers that the prognosis, especially live on camera, was completely unexpected.

“I did say that we should have had her bring her [micro]scope because I wanted to check out a couple of things on my arms, so that part was planned,” he told me. “But I never really thought it was going to be skin cancer.”

Co-host Alex Holley then asked the doctor what Jerrick should do next and whether he should schedule an appointment, to which Dr. Walker responded yes.

“When she blurted it out, I didn’t get alarmed or anything,” Jerrick told me. “It was just like, ‘Oh dang, I should have done this a long time ago.'”

I should be all right. She’ll simply stitch me up, and I’ll be on my way.

The publication has already confirmed that Jerrick has an appointment to get the area removed on Friday.

According to the Mayo Clinic, basal cell carcinoma can look like a flesh-colored or pink lump on white skin or brown or glossy black on brown and black skin, and it develops in sun-exposed areas such as the head and neck.

Avoiding the sun and tanning beds and using sunscreen can help avoid this kind of skin cancer.