Low-Risk Skin Cancers Often Treated Too Aggressively in Elderly, Study Finds

Low-Risk Skin Cancers Often Treated Too Aggressively in Elderly, Study Finds

The patient who made Dr. Eleni Linos wonder about the way we treat small, nonthreatening skin cancers in the elderly was 95 years old. “He was truly suffering,” recalled Dr. Linos, a dermatologist at the University of California, San Francisco. He had ...