Why does my skin cancer need to have Mohs Surgery?

BECAUSE:

• the skin cancer is in an area where it is important to preserve healthy tissue for maximum functional and cosmetic result, such as eyelids, nose, ears, lips, fingers, toes, and genitals;
  
  
• the skin cancer was treated previously and has come back;
  
  
• scar tissue exists in the area of the skin cancer;
  
  
• the skin cancer is large;
  
  
• the edges of the skin cancer cannot be clearly defined;
  
  
• the skin cancer is growing rapidly or uncontrollably;
  
  
• the skin cancer is of an aggressive subtype (i.e. sclerosing or infiltrating basal cell carcinoma).

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