Skin Cancer Diagnosis & Treatments

Basal Cell Carcinoma

Diagnosis
This common and always curable skin cancer is the result of sun damage to the skin.  Sunlight ages the skin cells, causing their growth to be disturbed.  A basal cell cancer begins as a small spot that grows slowly and relentlessly until treated.  Basal cell cancers enlarge steadily, but they never spread to distant parts of the body and never invade internal tissues.  Microscopic examination, by a pathologist in a medical laboratory, is necessary to determine whether a growth is cancerous.