I get my dermatology care from Mayo Clinic since 2006. Every time I have a biopsy and comes back skin cancer I am given several options for treating it along with the success of each and the complications of each.

Thus my dermatologist is very informative and I have chosen MOHS surgery every time. MOHS surgery is not painful after pain medication injected. What it does is take skin off around the biopsy and see if all has been removed as they go beyond the biopsy area. The removed skin is then sent to pathology who examines it.

If there are any signs of cancer the surgeon comes back and remove more of the skin and pathology examines again. The process continues until all the cancer is removed. It a curative surgery.

Mayo cancer surgeons are very specialized especially the MOHS surgeons. I would definitely get a second opinion and options for treated it. I was given the lotion, freezing, and other options along with MOHS both my dermatologist and I agreed on MOHS as you do NOT leave the operating room until all the cancer is removed and no other treatment is need other than (the last one I had had to have stitches) wound monitoring.