Head and neck surgeon Dr. Andrew Jun treats skin cancer like a weed.
“If you don’t take the entire root out, it may look good initially, but in the end it will come back to be even worse,” said Jun, owner of Surgical Services of Illinois, who has performed about 500 Mohs micrographic surgeries a year since 2004 on thin-skinned areas of the body such as the face, hands and feet.
According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, Mohs surgery has a 95 percent to 97 percent cure rate for basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas, the two most common types of skin cancer, while removing a minimal amount of healthy tissue. Other methods have cure rates of 50 percent to 60 percent.
Mohs surgeons go after the cancer at the cell level. They examine mapped and stained tissue layer by layer under a microscope, while the patient remains in surgery under local anesthetic, until they reach the layer and location that contains no more cancer cells.
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