Excision of a skin cancer, a keratoacanthoma, filmed with my GoPro

This lovely patient of mine had a biopsy proven keratoacanthoma, which is a form of a type of skin cancer called a squamous cell carcinoma. These are usually quick growing skin cancer that most commonly occurs on sun exposed skin. They grow up quickly and often have a central scab – they look a lot like a miniature volcano of skin that erupts in a short time.
Since these grow large quickly, these are often a source of major concern for a patient, but the good new is, that when a keratacanthoma is this size, it is not likely life threatening. However, it needs to be removed completely, because it is locally destructive to the skin. Although you can’t see much before we remove the skin cancer, this patient did have a small eruptive growth on her forearm, which we biopsied a few weeks prior to confirm the diagnosis. We scheduled a return appointment to excise the skin around the area to ensure that the skin cancer doesn’t reoccur.
She is so sweet to allow us to film this procedure, so that people in a similar predicament know what to expect.

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