They have great technology to remove skin cancer. They can take a segment out and examine it with a special machine to make sure they have clear margins while you are waiting.

I had two basal cell sites removed last fall. One was wider than they thought, the other deeper. Not as unnerving as a melanoma, granted.

They did 2 layers of stitches and now all you can see is a thin line. So much was taken out of my arm I had a saddle effect, but they said in 6 months if it did not resolve they would do plasitc surgery w/o cost. It resolved.

Hopefully you caught this early and everything will be okay. My neuro had a melonoma on the back of his knee. His wife spotted it. Twenty years later he is just fine. Hope you will be too!