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Biopsy confirmed: I have squamous cell carcinoma
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I played a lot of golf in the sunshine state of California . Every year I visit my dermatologist and have my basil cell spots removed with "Liquid Nitrogen " . The Squamous on my head my GP removed in his office ( cancer was confirmed by Biopsy ) Futher home treatment was Efudex topical chemo cream .
My wife , many , many years ago had a Mohs procedure on her nose - no issue ever since .
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I grew up in Florida. When you went back to school on Mondays how sunburn you were was how much fun you had over weekend. This continued for me until much much later in life when dermatologist started saying prevent sunburns and wear sun screen.
So I am paying the price now for all those fun sun burn days.
When you mention Liquid Nitrogen to burn off basal cell spots. I think these are pre cancer spots. Dermatologist can see them using a special light and then remove them with liquid nitrogen. I could not even give you a number of how many of these I had done probably in the hundreds.
It would take a biopsy to determine if an area was Basal or Squamous. And again I could not even give an accurate number of biopsies I have had but most come back negative. Mayo dermatology does not play around with may be or may not be they do a biopsy if there is any chance could already be a cancer.
I am in good hands.