Even though it does not feel like there is a lot of skin on the scalp, there is actually quite a bit. The way it works is that your surgeon will do an excision (based on the biopsy report) and remove tissue just as deep (and wide) as he/she believes the cancer lies. Then a slide is made while...
After a biopsy, small skin cancers can sometimes appear to shrink as the biopsy wound heals. There is a tiny chance that the biopsy was deep enough to remove all of a small squamous cell carcinoma. However, in the vast majority of cases, there are remaining cancer cells in the shrinking biopsy...