General information about Skin Cancer
Cancer treatment information changes quickly. Rather than copying large treatment summaries that may become outdated, this page links directly to the National Cancer Institute’s current information summaries which are updated regularly.
This page also links to detailed info about complementary therapies that may:
✓ Reduce treatment-related pain and organ damage
✓ Improve how well your treatment works
✓ Improve your quality of life
✓ Reduce your risk of a recurrence
✓ Support your longer-term survival
Skin Cancer detailed info from the U.S. National Cancer Institute website.
Additional Info – Non Melanoma Skin Cancer
Mole Screening Clinics
If you’re concerned that a mole or skin lesion could be cancerous, you can have it checked out by a dermatologist or other professional trained in early skin cancer detection.
This could save you unnecessary surgery and is painless, fast and very reasonably priced.
In Ireland you can get checked at the following clinics (there are others):
Outside Ireland: Check for similar services in your own area.
Mohs Micrographic Surgery
Mohs surgery. A surgical procedure to remove a visible lesion on the skin in several steps. First, a thin layer of cancerous tissue is removed. Then, a second thin layer of tissue is removed and viewed under a microscope to check for cancer cells. More layers are removed one at a time until the tissue viewed under a microscope shows no remaining cancer. This type of surgery is used to remove as little normal tissue as possible.
Source: National Cancer Institute
This2022 studyof 71 studies (16,575 patients) concluded:
Local recurrence of melanoma is significantly lower after Mohs Micrographic Surgery (<1%) and staged excision (3%) compared with wide local excision (7%).
This Systematic Review 118 publications says:
Our pooled analysis suggests lower rates of local recurrence and deaths attributable to disease after Mohs micrographic surgery, despite the fact that tumours treated by this method are likely to be at higher risk…
Last updated April 2026