What goes into your decision making when deciding between superficial radiation and Mohs surgery for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck?

When it comes down to deciding between surgical resection and definitive radiotherapy for well-differentiated, non-melanomatous skin malignancies, my simple rule of thumb is: While surgery may be the gold standard, whenever the post-operative cosmetic or functional sequelae are perceived to be poten...

I usually discuss with the patients that the evaluation for treatment is like real estate. Location, size, age (of patient and lesion), and co-morbidities (which is more like inspection).

Patients seem to understand that and why friends or relatives may have had different treatments.

We all have alg...