Is Surgical Excision Your Best Option for a Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer?
If you've recently been diagnosed with basal or squamous cell carcinoma, you may be terrified after having heard the words "skin cancer" leave your doctor's mouth. Fortunately, both these types of skin cancer have extremely high cure rates—only about 2,000 of the more than 2.2 million people diagnosed with one of these skin cancers each year will succumb to it, and many of these deaths are due to outside complicating factors (like old age or other illness).