16 Dec

Skin Cancer Surgery: Mohs Surgery

For some years the whole society has been aware of the increase in cases of skin cancer , both melanoma and non-melanoma.

In today’s article we will dedicate ourselves to talking about non-melanoma skin cancer, that is, skin or cutaneous carcinoma.

The most common is basal cell carcinoma, in some of its forms. The least common is squamous cell carcinoma ,  which differs mainly in that it can affect the lymph nodes, unlike the cell bas that does not.

If you act early, it is a type of tumor that can be cured. We must act early to prevent its growth, which is always progressive, and in the case of squamous cell carcinoma its involvement can be lymph node. With this we will always ensure that the surgery is not aggressive or mutilating.

To prevent the tumor from coming out again and in delicate areas prevent the surgery from being very aggressive, we apply MOHS SURGERY . This consists of carrying out the extraction of the tumor, analyzing in the same intervention with the margins are free of disease. In this way, when we receive the result after a week we are warned that we have not been radical enough and we have to intervene on the patient again.

Everything is done on the same day of the intervention, so we must have the collaboration of an expert pathologist  such as Logopat‘s colleagues, as well as essential collaboration with expert dermatologists in the field such as Dr. Pigem, who has recently started his activity in Barcelona at our facilities in Cànons Clínics Barcelona.