I have repetitively battled skin cancer. Every year I get 10-20 spots "froze off" but the past three consecutive years I have had actual surgeries. 11 stitches left side nose crease, 12 stitches right temple area, but the worst was 57 stitches in right shoulder. They do the Mohs surgery in the Houston Medical Center:
Mohs surgery is treatment for melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and other forms of skin cancer. The surgeon removes layers of skin in an affected area, one at a time, and examines each layer under a microscope for signs of cancer cells. The procedure repeats until the...
www.hopkinsmedicine.org
They cut until they find clean margins. In my shoulder they had to dig 3X, and took out a chunk the size of a small walnut or pecan. It was difficult to pull the skin back together so they made a T incision and stitched it up tight. They did beautiful, beautiful work even though I was not worried about the appearance of it.
BTW I am not a truck driver or anything. but I did run around as a kid without a shirt on every day in the Texas summer. I never knew what I was doing to my skin in the late 60's early 70's. I shrugged off all the sunburns every day.