Charlotte NC Mohs surgeon discusses how to treat your basal cell carcinoma
Charlotte NC Mohs surgeons are trained in the most up-to-date skin cancer removal surgery technique, Mohs surgery. Receiving a cancer diagnosis can be a worrisome time in your life. The uncertainty of what having skin cancer means to you and to your life can be too much to bear. Charlotte Mohs surgeons are available to discuss your surgery and treatment options with you, and to help ease some of this burden off of your shoulders. Basal cell carcinoma is a very common skin cancer that many people are diagnosed with yearly, worldwide. We’ll go a little further into explaining what basal cell carcinoma is, and what your treatment options are if you have recently been diagnosed.
What is basal cell carcinoma?
Charlotte Mohs surgeons are knowledgeable in one of the most common types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma. Basal cell carcinoma is skin cancer that originates in the basal layer of your skin. The basal layer is the skin layer that is in charge of creating new skin cells when the other ones get old and destroyed by the body or flaked off. The way to recognize a basal cell carcinoma on the skin is to look for bumps that are transparent. Basal cell carcinoma can display itself in many different forms, so this isn’t a foolproof way of diagnosing it, and an appointment to the dermatologist should be scheduled if you believe you may have basal cell carcinoma.
What causes basal cell carcinoma?
As with all skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma is caused by a mutation in the DNA of a skin cell. When a skin cell’s DNA is mutated in the basal layer, instead of making new, normal skin cells to replenish the old ones, the basal layer will produce cancer cells that have mutated DNA and have the ability to spread cancer throughout the body. When you visit a Charlotte Mohs surgeon for an annual check-up, or for a consultation for a suspicious looking lesion, they will decide if a biopsy should be taken. Once a biopsy has been taken, they will send it off to a lab that will determine if you have basal cell carcinoma.
Mohs surgery for basal cell carcinoma
Charlotte Mohs surgeons offer Mohs surgery, a conservative surgery that will rid you of your skin cancer while being as non-invasive as possible. Mohs surgery involves taking pieces of the cancerous skin away, layer by layer, and examining each layer for cancer before determining that the site is cancer-free. Mohs surgery has made it so that skin cancer can be treated aesthetically, and with as little invasion as possible.
Dr. Sasha Haberle- your Charlotte NC Mohs surgeon and skin cancer specialist
Charlotte Mohs surgeon, Dr. Sasha Haberle of Metrolina dermatology, helps the people of Charlotte, NC with all of their skin cancer needs. A board certified dermatologist and Mohs surgeon, Dr. Haberle can work with you on a treatment plan for your basal cell carcinoma. If you live near the Charlotte, NC area and believe that you may have a cancerous lesion, have recently been diagnosed with skin cancer, or simply need an appointment with a dermatologist, book an appointment with us today.
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