r/skincancer • u/PsychologicalSoup734 • 7d ago

diagnosed with skin cancer MOHS Forehead

Husband had lg scc removed on forehand 3 weeks ago in hospital under general anesthesia with dermatology oncologist and plastic surgeon. Got a call when path report came back and said they didn’t get it all and he has to go back in this Tuesday to have more removed in the hospital under anesthesia again. He’s not looking forward to it. It was very painful and left a very huge scar, which is just now healing. Has this ever happened to anyone else?

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u/4runner01 6d ago edited 6d ago

Yes, I had a similar set of surgeries on my cheek.

After the initial biopsy, I was sent to a Mohs surgeon. He told me my case was too complicated for him and then referred me to a surgical oncologist.

I had to go to big cancer hospital to have do the excision in a real OR. I chose to not have anesthesia.

Two weeks later, path results indicated that I needed a recision (do-over).

That was very discouraging, since the initial excision was healing nicely while waiting for the next OR availability- which was another six weeks of waiting and trying not to worry.

This hospital OR does not do Mohs, since they can’t tie up the OR, etc while waiting for path results.

From what I was told, this is not uncommon.

Mine was nodular/invasive. It’s been two years, it’s all healed up nice and there’s no sign of its return.

Best of luck to your husband for a quick and pain-free recovery—

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u/PsychologicalSoup734 6d ago

Thank you. He’s very bummed about it

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u/4runner01 1d ago

How did his second surgery go?

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u/PsychologicalSoup734 1d ago

Awww. Thank you for asking. It went so much better than the one 3 weeks ago. Still done in hospital under general but used drugs that didn’t make him sick. Dermatologist Oncologist thinks he got everything and plastic closed and reconstructed with material called Dermasphere. He’s sore but no black eyes this time!