title: Cancer chemosurgery (Mohs' technique). The "chemo-check".
abstract: Cancer chemosurgery (Mohs' technique) was used following curettage and desiccation of 30 unusual basal cell carcinomas as a "chemo-check" to determine if a cure had been affected. Remaining tumor was found in six of these highly-selected 30 cases. The remaining tumor was eradicated by chemosurgery. Using chemosurgery as a "chemo-check" can further reduce the small percentage of failures following curettage and desiccation of cutaneous carcinomas and thereby prevent difficult recurrent lesions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, Calif., USA.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Tromovitch
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Beirne
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beirne
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015580:Mohs Surgery; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*