Hi Richard,
I searched both the newsgroup archives and Google search and neither comes
up with anything on that word, which would be anything related to cancer.
The closest guess (and I could be wrong) I could come up with would be
squamous???
and that could be anything from a small skin lesion to major cancer, so I
guess you'll have to get us more informiation, before we can give you any
information. Do talk to your mother, find out more and we'll help as best
we can.
J

Might that be "squamous cell carcinoma"? If so, it's a fairly common
skin cancer. For information, try:
http://www.aad.org/pamphlets/sqamous.html