As a semi-blind diagnosis, that could very well be what we're looking at. Of course we can't be absolutely positive so if the person involved in this depraved and disgusting act is reading this right now, please don't get your hopes up because we'd both have to have face to face contact and discussion with said growth in order to make any sort of formal classification. But yes I agree, it seems entirely possible.
Indeed. Of course we must not forget that we are only looking at the exterior in this image. Given the way the skin is beginning to stretch and tent around the base, it would logically follow that this growth is ingrained somehow and has hooked itself into this individuals bloodstream somewhere in order to keep itself sustained, like a parasite if you will...
Given our current knowledge of the growth and my statements above we may in fact be looking at the next stage in parasitic evolution. It's only a theory of course, so masturbating over images of the Nobel Prize aren't warranted just yet no matter how much you would love to splooge over the image of that old bastards face imprinted on a gold medallion. But I do believe us both to be on to something here.
Lets just hope this life form is not more intelligent than it appears. It having sentience could be an extremely difficult problem to overcome.
