What are your experiences with BCC biopsy

I had one on my temple for about 6 months, I had treatment of a cream for a short period which burns your skin then a biopsy, it was all fine in the end. No noticeable scar

I do now better late than never.

OP i was advised by the consultant to wear SPF 50 everyday all year round so i do.

If BCC he will be fine. I’m in Australia so have had skin cancers sliced and diced since my early 30’s.

My first was a very early stage melanoma, and I was pregnant with one of the gang when that was detected. Since then the only way has been up with numerous SCC’s and BCC’s😁. It’s pretty standard here for my generation (I’m not young). They just burn them or slice them out and then take extra if they need, only real issue comes when you don’t have enough skin for them to take any more and have to go through the topical chemo/immunotherapy palaver which is a nuisance but does the trick with BCC’s and SCC’s. Hopefully my kids will avoid a lot of this as completely as unlike my childhood where sun protection was not a thing here - we did have a sunblock back then but was completely liquid, parents lost half of it before rubbing it on and it rubbed straight off on anything you wore/sat on/touched and came off immediately in water. Hats were not a thing back then for us and all kids wore bikini’s/speedo’s at the beach and not much everywhere else. So, in short, people my age are pretty fucked, but our kids should be much better off.

I see a skin cancer specialist every 3 months for checks, the main concern being to spot any melanoma pronto so it can be chopped out before spread, that’s the only real worry, everything else pretty easily dealt with.

I have had two BCCs on my nose, well the second was the same one basically that recurred because I don’t think they fully removed it all the first time. The first time, they just cut it out. The second time, they did a punch biopsy which was fine, but they decided they didn’t quite get it all from the biopsy but what was left was very superficial so could be treated with Aldara cream (basically like a chemotherapy cream). Now fair warning, this was pretty horrendous. I had to apply it for 6 weeks and it was painful, the reaction was extreme but they told me that meant it was working. It did heal up after the treatment finished with minimal scarring, but I certainly didn’t look pretty for a few weeks.

I don't wear suncream in the winter months, I just wear my Elizabeth Arden moisturiser with factor 15 in it, I'm 67 though so I maybe would do differently if I was younger, a lot of my damage was done in the 80s, lots of sunbathing with factor 2, 4 and 8 which was common in those years. Only my face is out in the cooler weather anyway.

It really isn't anything to worry about although the C word can be terrifying. I had one removed from my eyelid by MOHs surgery at 39, 57 now. I have been very careful to use factor 50 on my face everyday since and thankfully have never had a recurrence. They don't spread and very rarely infiltrate surrounding tissue.

I've had two removed, one on my back and one on the end of my nose which wasn't a great place to have one. After seeing the dermatologist I was sent to the Plastic Surgery to have it removed, I had six stitches which were removed a couple of weeks later. It has left a scar but I used Bio Oil religiously and although visible in certain lights it's translucent and not red.

Yes, have had 4 altogether - 3 of them all treated at the same time. No biopsy for the biggest one, just whipped it straight out. If I remember correctly they did the same for my very first one. The other 2 were diagnosed as Bowens, and were treated with the Efudix cream. Which in all honesty was worse than the actual minor op. (As in itching and how raw it looked) But all clear, and as ppl have said, very very common but also extremely slow growing

The cream is sometimes prescribed if it is the very flat BCC, mine was like a small dry skin patch that itched occasionally, not lumpy at all.

I had a small shiny red lump on my face for a few years and I was really worried about it. The dermatologist decided to just remove right there rather than take a biopsy. It turned out to be benign.

I live in Australia and I’m not exaggerating when I say that almost everyone I know (and I’m 47) has had at least one BCC frozen off, and most people have had a number removed. They don’t even refer to it as cancer here, it’s so common.
Over here they kind of dissolve them normally and you get minimal scarring - equally ours tend to be caught early as we have yearly skin checks.

Timespan on mine was 3-4 months until one biopsy and one removal then a further 6-8 weeks for results and then I got cream prescription.

I had one taken out on my leg as it was quite big, no biopsy, another one on my leg I had a biopsy on, had local anaesthetic and biopsy taken, couple of dissolving stitches and it came back as BCC and I was given Efudix cream for that one. I was told I may get others but all good so far.

Yes he did- that was a couple of months before it was removed

BCC rarely spread enough to cause damage and if they do it’s not quick hence no two week, mine was misdiagnosed for a number of years, about 8! Going forward just regular skin checks and make sure he covers up in the sun etc

BCCs are very common. I've one removed. My GP said basically it's not going to spread but we'll just get it off. It was on my inner thigh and tbh the scar is approx 1.5 inches whereas the diameter of the thing was 0.7cm...

I've also had a suspected melanoma removed, that one was a big worry.

It's scary any time the C word is mentioned. Also 2 week pathway. I'm currently on my 3rd 2 week pathway now awaiting hysteroscopy and biopsy. I look at it like, brilliant, they're on it, get it sorted ASAP.

My husband had one removed from the top of his ear 13 years ago- he would’ve been the same age as your husband. No probs and no recurrence. It hardly ever spreads anywhere, hence the longer appointment waiting times.