Squamous cell skin cancers can be treated with simple excision, Mohs surgery (tissue sparing surgery), a scrape & burn procedure (ED&C) and in some cases, freezing with liquid nitrogen. The excision procedures (simple excision and Mohs) will tend to leave linear scars whereas the scrape & burn tend to leave flat whitish scars. A linear scar in the long run may be less noticeable than a flat white scar. If your squamous cell skin cancers are superficial, they may respond well to topical therapeutic agents including 5-Fluorouracil or Aldara which would be ideal since scarring would be minimal with these nonsurgical treatments. It is not appropriate, however, to treat invasive squamous cell skin cancers with creams.
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