Added: Mar 31, 2009
Dr. Coyle Connolly removes a lesion from the leg of a woman which is suspected of being an early cancer. Red scaly lesions that are not healing are suspicious for cancer. Pre Cancerous actinic keratosis can progress to squamous cell carcinoma and should be removed if a lesion has not healed in a few months. Sometimes these are removed with a shave biopsy, which determines if they were cancerous.
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