Skin Cancer Doctor - Skin Canter Detection - San Francisco California Jeffrey H. Binstock, M.D. is a San Francisco skin cancer doctor that offers a full skin cancer examination test.

SAN FRANCISCO		MILL VALLEY
22 Battery Street, Suite 905 San Francisco, CA 94111 415.956.8686		535 Miller Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 415.383.5475

About Skin Cancer

There has been an alarming rise in skin cancer such as basal and squamous cell carcinomas, as well as in melanoma. During their lifetime, one in five Americans will develop a basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma, and one in seventy-five will develop a melanoma; a rate that has doubled in the last twenty years. One million people a year will develop a new skin cancer.

80% of your lifetime damages happen before the age of twenty, and the effects of this damage can take ten to twenty years or longer to manifest.
While melanoma is usually caused by the sun, it can develop at any age and anywhere on the body. This includes areas of the skin that may have never been exposed to the sun.
Melanoma is the leading cause of death for woman 25 to 35, excluding accidents, and the most common form of cancer for people 25 to 29 years of age.
Melanoma is 100% curable if caught early, and is 100% fatal if ignored. Six of seven deaths from skin cancer each year are due to melanoma.

We strongly recommend that our patients undergo at least one baseline total body skin exam during which your skin surface and moles are examined. The frequency of these examinations will be determined by your skin's condition, and your personal and family history of melanoma. With each first-time body check, we teach our patients how to recognize the early warning signs of skin cancer.

Suspicious lesions are usually biopsied immediately and sent for histopathologic examination. All mole and skin cancer surgeries are performed in our office under local anesthesia as is Mohs' Micrographic Controlled Surgery. Dr. Binstock completed a fellowship at the University of California in San Francisco in Mohs' Surgery, a technique used to treat problem basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, and is he Board Certified by the American Board of Mohs' Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology, as well as by The American Board of Dermatology.

Jeffrey H. Binstock, M.D.
SAN FRANCISCO	MILL VALLEY
415.956.8686	415.383.5475

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