Skin Cancer & Mohs Surgery

Surgical Excision of Skin Cancer

After numbing the area with local anesthesia, the physician uses a scalpel to remove the entire growth along with a surrounding border of normal skin as a safety margin.

The skin around the surgical site is then closed with a number of stitches, and the excised tissue is sent to the laboratory for microscopic examination to verify that all the malignant cells have been removed. The effectiveness of the technique does not match that of Mohs, but produces cure rates around 90 percent.