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To determine the type of treatment to follow the specialist he will be based on some basic data:

- An age, health status and clinical history.

- In which state is the disease.

- A tolerance to specific therapies, to methods and medications.

Some types of treatments available for skin cancer, among them:

Surgery, it is used in most cases, on some occasions they attend surgery and smaller in others they may require more extensive procedures. Can be achieved in surgery:

- Criocirugía, freezes the tumor and cancerous cells are destroyed as well.

- Electrodisecación: It burns and the lesion is extirpated.

- Registries: When the cancer was eradicated we realize the registries of the skin that replaces damaged.

- A laser: Cancer cells are eliminated by applying a ray of light.

- A Mohs micrographic surgery: It eradicates cancer and the least possible amount of healthy tissue.

- A simple division: The tumor was extirpated and part of healthy tissue around it.

Radiation therapy: With the application of X-rays the cancerous cells are destroyed and the tumor is reduced.

An Electro-chemotherapy is a combination of chemotherapy and electrical pulses to the affected area.

Chemotherapy: A treatment is done with drugs that destroy cancer cells.

Topical Chemotherapy: Chemotherapy is administered via a cream or lotion.

Somatic chemotherapy: drugs are administered through pills or injections.

Biological therapy: It provides the body fight cancer by using materials created by the same body or laboratory.