Benign beginning

wee Tan’s interest in strawberry birthmarks was sparked in the mid-1990s, when he was unsatisfied with conventional treatments that involved high-dose steroids often followed up with plastic surgery and/or laser surgery to remove birthmarks from the faces and bodies of young on a screen in the institute’s boardroom. The angry birthmarks distort innocent young faces. “This is a tumour that grows from nothing to a big tumour and then somehow destroys itself.”