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Understanding Skin Cancer -- Symptoms

Examine your skin from head to toe every few months, using a full-length mirror and hand mirror to check your mouth, nose, scalp, palms, soles, bac...

What is Skin Cancer?

Basal cell carcinoma, which accounts for nearly 3 out of 4 skin cancers, is the slowest growing. About half of fair- skinned people who live to age...

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

A round nodule with central hyperkeratosis, firm and indolent.

Ocular Melanoma

Melanoma is a kind of cancer that develops in cells that give your skin, eyes, and hair their color. As with skin cancer, people with fair skin, bl...

What is Mohs Surgery?

Doctors use Mohs surgery (also called Mohs micrographic surgery) to treat skin cancer. The surgeon will remove the visible part of your cancer with...

Malignant Melanoma Treatment Protocols

Nivolumab (Opdivo) is an adjuvant therapy for patients who have undergone complete resection of melanoma with lymph node involvement or metastatic ...

What is Keratoacanthoma?

Keratoacanthoma is a dome-shaped lump or tumor that grows on your skin. It’s rare for anyone under age 20 to have keratoacanthoma. Your doctor will...

Types of Skin Biopsies

A skin biopsy is a procedure in which a doctor cuts and removes a small sample of skin to have it tested. Your doctor will tell you when the stitch...

What's The Treatment for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer?

If you’ve just been diagnosed with nonmelanoma skin cancer, be glad you and your doctor caught it. Your doctor may suggest freezing off the cancero...

Metastatic Melanoma

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. If you haven’t already been diagnosed with melanoma, your doctor will do a skin exam. In this test, the doctor i...

Understanding Skin Cancer -- Diagnosis and Treatment

In rare cases where basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma has begun to spread beyond the local skin site, the primary tumors are first removed surg...

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer. Unlike other types of skin cancer, it can spread to the tissues, bones...