One-Stop Shop: Diagnosis and Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinoma in One Step

Abstract

Monitoring the tumor margins of basal cell carcinomas is still a challenge in everyday clinical practice. Usually, the clinical margins of the tumor are marked by the naked eye or, even better, with dermoscopy before surgery and then examined in detail after the operation using histological examination. In order to achieve tumor freedom, several surgical steps are sometimes necessary, meaning that patients spend longer periods in hospital and the healthcare system is burdened more as a result. One way to improve this is the one-stop shop method, which requires precise diagnostics and margin marking before and during surgery so that tumor freedom can be achieved after just one surgery. For this reason, the current status of the diagnosis and treatment of basal cell carcinomas before and after surgery is to be examined following extensive literature research using devices and methods that have already been tested in order to determine how a simplified process of tumor margin control of basal cell carcinomas can be made possible both in vivo and ex vivo.