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No. As surgeons, we can work around hair accordingly, if needed. Sometimes the hair will be cut around the area of the tumor, if need be. Also too, shaving can potentially increase the risk of wound infection, if done within 24 hours of a surgery, as this can lift superficial skin cells and disrupt the environment near the tumor.
No, you don't need to do anything like shave or clip your hair unless you doctor specifically asked you to. Most of the time I will use clips if needed, or frankly, the assistant is there to help with holding the hair in place. There's no need for you to be concerned and try to prep. "This answer has been solicited without seeing this patient and cannot be held as true medical advice, but only opinion. Seek in-person treatment with a trained medical professional for appropriate care."
Thank you for your question. Soap and water is actually perfectly fine to run over the healing wound for cleaning, and is often recommended. Hydrogen peroxide should be reserved for wounds with fibrin within them (lacy white-colored tissue within early healing wounds), and should be used only...
If there is fibrin in the wound (early, healing tissue), then 1-2 times of cleaning the wound with hydrogen peroxide is okay, in order to lift some of the fibrin off of the healing wound (debridement). In general, any more use of this than that is not recommended, as hydrogen peroxide is known...
If radiation treatment is required after skin cancers excision in the same spot, the protocol of administration is usually lighter, also, the skin graft used to close the wound has to be healed. The speed of skin graft healing is inversely proportionate to its thickness. The thin skin grafts...
