The skin, the body’s largest organ, plays a crucial role in protecting us from the environment. However, prolonged exposure to the sun’s harmful rays can lead to abnormal growths of skin cells, often ...

First lady Jill Biden traveled to a military hospital Wednesday to remove a lesion found above her right eye during a routine skin examination. Doctors recommended she undergo Mohs surgery to remove ...

WASHINGTON - First lady Jill Biden was scheduled on Wednesday to undergo surgery to remove a potentially cancerous lesion above her right eye, something that was discovered during a recent routine ...

Erin Wheeler has always known she was at high risk for skin cancer. A kidney transplant, combined with fair skin from her Irish heritage, put skin cancer on her radar at age 10. Some three decades ...

Mohs micrographic surgery, commonly known as Mohs surgery, is performed to treat skin cancer. The procedure's name comes from Frederic E. Mohs, the doctor who invented the technique in the 1930s.

One of the recent advances in treatment for skin cancer is Mohs surgery, also referred to as Mohs micrographic surgery. This is a specialized surgery in which the surgeon does a microscope check of ...

Three methods of cosmetic surgery—local skin flap, full thickness skin graft, and secondary intention—were evaluated for their scarring risk following Mohs microscopic surgery on the distal third of ...

Medically reviewed by Brendan Camp, MD Key Takeaways The most common treatments for skin cancer on the nose include surgery, ...

Subsequent studies, however, have challenged the reliability of MMS for MM, citing poor accuracy of frozen sections to distinguish atypical melanocytes from background solar photodamage or lentigo ...