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Treatment

The choice of treatment is based on a variety of factors including size and location of the lesion, type of tumor, and age of the patient.

SCC in-situ can be eradicated by curettage and desiccation, a procedure used to scrape out and burn all the cancer cells. Invasive SCC that is small and not deep (superficial) can be treated using this procedure as well.

Small and large SCC can be excised (cut out). With surgical excision, a margin of healthy appearing tissue is removed ...Read the full article