How good is Image-Guided superficial radiation therapy as apposed to surgical removal of basal cell cancer from nose?

Hi! Fantastic question about non-surgical options for treating a Basal Cell Carcinoma above your eyebrow. One treatment option with a very similar cure rate is the IG-SRT which is radiotherapy, that may be preferential as it is non-surgical and there's no surgery involved. Best of luck in your...

Fractional laser is an amazing and highly effective treatment in our office. We use the laser treatment to help with acne scars, large pores, fine wrinkles, tissue collagen loss, scars, sebaceous hyperplasia, active acne, and for brightening dark pigmentation. Although there are very strong...

Your best option is to repeat the Mohs procedure. Recurrent skin cancer can be a bit sneaky and hard to see its full extent. I would strongly recommend you have it removed with a Mohs technique.

Studies show that Mohs surgery has the highest cure rate AND is associated with the most tissue sparing approach. Mohs takes a very small margin around the edge of the tumor, and looks at the most complete margin. So Mohs is the way to go for sure, and it is quite common to have to wait several...

Superficial BCC commonly has very ill-defined edges, and larger sites can quite often have a deeper component (nodular) or extend down hair follicular structures. So for an ill-defined tumor in the scalp that appears to be at least 8mm in size, I agree with the recommendation of Mohs rather than...

Moh’s surgery on the face often requires surgical repair and reconstruction to reapproximate the skin edges. Flaps or direct closure techniques are used. It is important that you optimize scar healing during this phase in order to reduce longterm scars. For red scars, we use Vbeam laser, f...