Yes Pat, it is hard to find information! This type is sort of rare. My plastic surgeon said that every time he goes to the hospital now to remove Morphea-Like Basal Cell Cancer, the hospital freaks out and asks if it is going to be like my surgery where I was in surgery for 6 1/2 hrs instead of the one hour I was scheduled for. He said I am "infamous" there. My surgery messed up their schedule so bad that day! My two tiny dots were so small when I originally went into the doctor's office, I could not see them when I looked into a regular mirror. And now my scar is about 2 inches by 1 1/2 inches. I read that Morphea-Like can spread to the eye. Usually basal cell does not leave the skin. My scar is about 1/2 inch away from my eye. The doctor had to remove skin from behind my ears to use for skin graft. He removed the back of my ears and skin from my head behind my ears, 4 different pieces of skin. Then he had to sew my ears to my head, from the top of my ear to the bottom of my earlobe. I have a hard time will the headsets that go with the Ipod and a blue tooth! Nothing fits in my ears or over my ears. My plastic surgeon was great!! I had no money. He looked at me and said, "You have a need, and I can take care of your need." My bill was $26,000, and he made it that every part of my bill was free; I actually never even saw a bill, it was just all taken care of. Now as I look back, I really wish I would have paid attention to dates, kept all receipts, paid attention to what exactly happened, and to what exactly the first doctor said to me, and I wish I would have taken lots of pictures. I trusted that doctor and believed everything he said, and I shouldn't have! After the dermatologist removed my cancer the first time, he did a pathology test himself. Later I found out that in his test, my cancer did still go to the edges; but he said that is normal, because of the way he removed it. He burned the edges, and he said that removes any cancer in the edges. Sure maybe that is true, but what about the octopus legs?? I also later learned that burning the edges method (I don't know what it is really called), is "prehistoric." He should have never done that, and definitely should have not have done it the second time. He has been a dermatologist for about 40 years. He is "grandfathered in" and needs no further education. Since he graduated 40 years ago, he has never had any further education! So it is also a really good idea to look at the doctors records! He is a big, reputable doctor here with a very busy office. But now I know that doesn't mean anything!
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Yes Pat, it is hard to find information! This type is sort of rare. My plastic surgeon said that every time he goes to the hospital now to remove Morphea-Like Basal Cell Cancer, the hospital freaks out and asks if it is going to be like my surgery where I was in surgery for 6 1/2 hrs instead of the one hour I was scheduled for. He said I am "infamous" there. My surgery messed up their schedule so bad that day! My two tiny dots were so small when I originally went into the doctor's office, I could not see them when I looked into a regular mirror. And now my scar is about 2 inches by 1 1/2 inches. I read that Morphea-Like can spread to the eye. Usually basal cell does not leave the skin. My scar is about 1/2 inch away from my eye. The doctor had to remove skin from behind my ears to use for skin graft. He removed the back of my ears and skin from my head behind my ears, 4 different pieces of skin. Then he had to sew my ears to my head, from the top of my ear to the bottom of my earlobe. I have a hard time will the headsets that go with the Ipod and a blue tooth! Nothing fits in my ears or over my ears. My plastic surgeon was great!! I had no money. He looked at me and said, "You have a need, and I can take care of your need." My bill was $26,000, and he made it that every part of my bill was free; I actually never even saw a bill, it was just all taken care of. Now as I look back, I really wish I would have paid attention to dates, kept all receipts, paid attention to what exactly happened, and to what exactly the first doctor said to me, and I wish I would have taken lots of pictures. I trusted that doctor and believed everything he said, and I shouldn't have! After the dermatologist removed my cancer the first time, he did a pathology test himself. Later I found out that in his test, my cancer did still go to the edges; but he said that is normal, because of the way he removed it. He burned the edges, and he said that removes any cancer in the edges. Sure maybe that is true, but what about the octopus legs?? I also later learned that burning the edges method (I don't know what it is really called), is "prehistoric." He should have never done that, and definitely should have not have done it the second time. He has been a dermatologist for about 40 years. He is "grandfathered in" and needs no further education. Since he graduated 40 years ago, he has never had any further education! So it is also a really good idea to look at the doctors records! He is a big, reputable doctor here with a very busy office. But now I know that doesn't mean anything!
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