Introduction

When completed this website will guide you through the basics of skin cancer surgery concentrating on relevant anatomy and informed selection of surgical excision methods based on the nature of the lesion you are excising and where it is situated on the body. This will be the most difficult of these D----- Made Simple websites to put together. Surgical skill is something that is acquired by experience but you need taught well initially or all that happens is you perpetuate your mistakes. Tissue handling and good suturing is not something that can be taught on a website like this. However we can teach you basic principles of lesion selection, the best surgical method of closure, the best patient preparation for surgery to minimise likely problems etc but then it is up to you to go to reputable training courses or seek a preceptorship watching an experienced doctor carry out these procedures and try to learn from what you see. We will try to scour the web for good videos describing surgical techniques but if you can afford it the book by Paver and Stanford called Dermatologic Surgery has two DVDs with over 100 excellent videos which will go a long way to providing you with experience of good surgical technique and closure selections for various areas of the body. See Dermatologic Surgery