Some surgeons miss tumors because they cut too close
to the edge of the visible tumor in an effort to reduce scaring and thus gather
patients.
What is the person called that graduates with the
lowest grades from medical school? Answer: Doctor.
The greatest danger to Americans' health could be
their insurance company.
It is better to be naked at the beach and covered
with sunscreen than to be fully clothed in T-shirt material and not using
sunscreen..
Sometimes it is best to pair the best of traditional
treatment methods with what has been shown definitely to work from the newest
treatment methods..
Beware of the LASER, especially the newest models,
because there is a learning curve and all doctors are relatively inexperienced
in the use of the newest equipment. Wait a few months to find out if there
are any new complications that have surfaced in that time.
With basal-cell skin cancer, often it is better
not to treat the tumor than for a doctor to fail or to have treated it wrongly.
Basal-cell cancer grows slowly; take your time to research the possible treatments
and doctors appropriately.
Mohs Surgery spares more normal skin than any other
treatment method and has the undisputed highest cure rate for basal-cell
and squamous-cell cancer.
Mohs Surgery has been proven to be really helpful
against one type of melanoma, the lentigo maligna. The author does
not perform Mohs on most melanomas.
"There are no Board Certified Plastic Surgeons who
have been officially trained by the American COLLEGE of Mohs Surgery for more
than a few weeks . . . Mohs Surgery should be studied for two years." (Dr.
Philip Bailin of the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.)
Paul
J. Weber, M.D., P.A.
5353 North Federal Highway, Suite 400
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
Tel: 954-489-9800 | Fax: 954-489-0401
