Kentucky Nurse's Viral Selfie Spiked Searches About Skin Cancer, Research Says

A viral selfie documenting a woman's skin cancer treatment prompted record high Google searches for prevention of the condition, a recent study found.

In April 2015, Tawny Dzierzek, a nurse from Kentucky, shared a selfie on Facebook after a skin cancer treatment. She was 27 years old when she posted the graphic photo to show the world the ugly side of tanning gone wrong. 

"If anyone needs a little motivation to not lay in the tanning bed and sun here ya go!" she wrote. "This is what skin cancer treatment can look like."