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While new lumps or appearance changes in the skin may suggest cancer, the only certain was to diagnose any cancer is by taking a sample of it, called a "biopsy". The biopsy material is examined by a "pathologist", a physician specializing in diagnosing disease using tissue samples. A biopsy may be done by removing the entire suspected cancer, with a safety margin of normal tissue around it. This is called an "excisional biopsy". Alternately, just a small sample of the tumor may be taken, either by cutting a piece off of it or using a punch device to take a core of it.

Often, patients who need many doses of IV chemotherapy receive the drugs through a catheter (a thin flexible tube). One end of the catheter is placed in a large vein in the chest. The other end is outside the body or attached to a small device just under the skin. Anticancer drugs are given through the catheter. This can make chemotherapy more comfortable for the patient. Patients and their families are shown how to care for the catheter and keep it clean. For some types of cancer, doctors are studying whether it helps to put anticancer drugs directly into the affected area.

A basal cell carcinoma is a form of skin cancer. Basal cell carcinomas are the result of sun damage to the skin. Basal cell carcinomas enlarge slowly and steadily and can invade neighboring tissue, like the eye, but they usually do not spread to distant parts of the body (metastasize).

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