Superficial Spreading Melanoma Cancer
Posted on | May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
Skin cancer is common types of cancer for people who loved sunbath or often gets expose with the sun and melanoma is also endanger those who loved tanned skin. Among all types of melanoma, superficial spreading melanoma (also known as “Superficially spreading melanoma”) (SSM) is the most common form of malignant melanoma in Caucasians.
Superficial spreading melanoma (SSM) usually diagnosed when people who got it at age of 50, and it is occur on part of body that often expose to the sun, especially on the backs of males and lower limbs of females.
Can Mohs Surgery do as Melanoma Skin Cancer Treatment?
Posted on | May 16, 2010 | Comments Off
Mohs Surgery is a type of skin cancer treatment that not only has a very high cure rate but also less invasive. Moh’s surgery has a very high cure rate depend on what its treat, it has the highest cure rate when treating basal cell carcinoma skin cancer, but the cure rate is lesser in treating squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer.
Tags: basal cell carcinoma > Melanoma > Skin cancer Treatment
Basal Cell Carcinoma Skin Cancer Treatment – Moh’s Surgery
Posted on | May 13, 2010 | Comments Off
Mohs Micrographic Surgery or just Mohs Surgery is the most advanced and effective treatment procedure for skin cancer available today. It is an outpatient procedure in which the tumor is surgically excised and then immediately examined under a microscope. It said that Mohs surgery has a high cure rate compared to other skin cancer treatment. It is a good treatment for basal cell carcinoma.
basal cell carcinoma skin cancer
The base and edges are microscopically examined to verify sufficient margins before the surgical repair of the site. If the margins are insufficient, more is removed from the patient until the margins are sufficient.
basal cell carcinoma
Tags: basal cell carcinoma > Skin cancer Treatment
Basal Cell Carcinoma Treatment – Standard Surgical Excision
Posted on | May 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Standard surgical excision usually uses either:
- Frozen section histology, or
- Parafin embedded fixed tissue pathology
Standard Surgical Excision is a preferred removal method of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and/or for this skin cancer treatment. The cure rate for this method, whether done by a plastic surgeon, family doctor, or dermatologist is totally dependent on the surgical margin. When standard surgical margin is applied (usually 4 mm or more) a high cure rate can be achieved with standard excision. The narrower the free surgical margin (skin removed that is free of visible tumor) the higher the recurrence rate.
Tags: basal cell carcinoma > Skin cancer Treatment
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