The different skin cancer treatment options are:
- Mohs surgery – see description below.
- Radiation surgery involves going to the hospital on multiple visits to get radiation.
- Scraping or burning called electrodessication, curettage depending on the location of the skin cancer. This option has a tendency of producing a round whitish scar as opposed to a cosmetic line scar.
- Excision or removal of the skin cancer without Mohs surgery. With this option, there are wider margins, so there is a risk of leaving a larger scar and the potential risk of not getting it all out the first time and having to go back and repeat the procedure.
- In some cases, you can use topical immunotherapy with a medication called Imiquimod, or Aldara