Moles and skin tags often become irritating or troublesome and some patients may wish to remove them for cosmetic reasons as well as to exclude chances of skin cancer.

We remove skin lesions using 3 options; either by cryotherapy (freezing); punch biopsies or excision biopsies.

The technique will depend on the size of the lesion, the site and on the degree of suspicion. Any suspicious skin lesions are removed by biopsy and examined at the Pathcare Laboratory to exclude any chance of skin cancer.

Our doctors will be happy to examine any lesion that is concerning you and advise you further.

Downtime is only a few hours and any stitches can usually be removed after one week of healing.

Cryotherapy is indicated for:

• skin tags
• warts
• corns
• solar keratoses (sun spots)

Biopsies are indicated in:

• pigmented moles
• non-pigmented moles showing suspicious changes.

After-treatment scar reduction methods are used to reduce the appearance of scars following removal.

Moles that are not removed are photographed and recorded and followed up annually.