The treatment methods include excision (surgical removal) with suturing (sewing), curettage and electrodessication (scraping and burning with an electric needle), radiotherapy (x-ray treatments), cryosurgery (freezing), photodynamic therapy (shining light or laser on cells that have taken up or been activated by a chemical), topical chemotherapy (chemical destruction) and Mohs Surgery (microscopically controlled excision). Interferon has been used in the treatment of melanoma, squamous-cell cancer (SCC) and basal-cell cancer (BCC).
