KHOU 11 Chief Meteorologist David Paul recently had a cancer removed from his nose and is wearing a bandage as it heals. 

If you tune in to watch local TV weather reports this week, you might notice a Houston meteorologist sporting a large band-aid on his nose. David Paul, chief metrologist for KHOU 11 Houston, took to social media on Monday to explain to viewers that he's wearing the bandage because he recently had a skin cancer removed from his nose and it's still healing.

"It's something called a basal cell carcinoma," Paul said in a short clip he posted to Twitter. "Now, this is the most common type of skin cancer. Millions of people are diagnosed with this every year and it's also the most treatable. But to treat it, you've got to get rid of it. It means you have to get in there and cut it out. And so that's what they did and I've got stitches in my nose." 

I'm sporting the 'band aid on the nose' look this week... here's why... #khou11 pic.twitter.com/WN96biBjiA

With enough time, Paul said his nose will heal up "and you'll never know what even happened." The longtime weatherman encouraged his followers to visit a dermatologist at least once a year, as that is what helped him to discover the cancer. "They're the ones who caught this before it became a bigger issue," he said. "Why did it happen at all? I spend all my spring breaks and summer on the beach with my family and I did go through some pretty bad sun burns." 

Paul also wrote an article for KHOU 11 explaining the situation, in which he also emphasized the importance of wearing sunscreen. "It works to prevent this from happening in the first place, which I wish I had done when I was younger but it was a different time and mom and dad were a little loose about that," he said in his video.

Named chief meteorologist for KHOU 11 in 2013, Paul celebrated 25 years with the TV news station in April 2022. After moving to Houston at the age of two, Paul graduated from Westfield High School and received a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Texas in Austin and a bachelor of science in geosciences from Mississippi State. Before his time at KHOU 11, Paul worked at WCBD-TV in Charleston, S.C., and KPLC-TV in Lake Charles, La. 

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