On call: Does skin cancer come back?
I recently had a basal cell carcinoma of the skin removed. Will it come back? Can I prevent a recurrence?BCC is the most common type of skin cancer, followed by squamous cell carcinoma, and then melanoma. Unlike the more deadly melanoma, BCC rarely spreads to other areas of the body. Death from BCC is extremely rare, but the cancer can be disfiguring if allowed to grow untreated.
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