Treatment of Carcinoma
Treatment is always surgical excision or tumor. Depending on the size and status of the patient, intervention may be required under general anesthesia, although most can be operated with local anesthesia on an outpatient basis without admission to hospital. If the tumor affects sensitive areas of the face such as eyes or nose, you may need a reconstruction of the area through plastic surgery techniques.
Tumors difficult to operate because of its size, location, or the patient’s condition. In some of these cases may opt for radiation therapy, which also gets cures in most cases. At present, the possibility of treating these tumors completely is 95%.
Some very superficial basal cell carcinomas or small can be treated with medication in cream, such as 5-fluorouracil or imiquimod, with excellent results. It also can be destroyed with an electric knife or by freezing with cryotherapy devices. Actinic keratoses can be treated similarly.
For cases of advanced squamous cell carcinoma has spread and has caused metastasis, the options are surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy depending on the case.
There infiltrating type BCC with many extensions or “roots” that can not be seen when operating. Often, the tumor recurrence over the scar if it is properly operated, because tumor cells are no longer continue to reproduce. For these cases there is a technique called Mohs micrographic surgery in which the tumor is analyzed under the microscope by removing stages as you go. This type of surgery ensures complete recovery of virtually 100% of infiltrative basal cell carcinomas.