About Mohs Centre
Mohs micrographic surgery is a detailed surgical procedure to treat aggressive non-melanoma skin cancers, mainly on the face and neck. Mohs surgery is not done as a routine procedure. For most routine skin cancers, simple cutting out (excision) or scraping is done. Patients who come for a Mohs procedure have been selected as having unusual or more difficult tumours because of their type, size, location, or failure of other techniques to produce a cure.

Referral Information
Patients are referred to the centre after the diagnosis has been confirmed with a biopsy, and the cancer is considered complex.  Patients must be referred to the centre by a dermatologist,  otolaryngologist or plastic surgeon.

Find out more about Mohs micrographic surgery and other special surgical procedures of the skin offered at Women's College Hospital.