5 Million Cases, Long Wait Times—Is There a Better Way to Treat Skin Cancer?

Añadido: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]annual cases in the United States at um a cost of 15 billion to treat and uh the current standard of care is surgery, Mohs surgery, and while that is a very effective technique, it's been around for many, many years.

[00:00:18]Um it's cumbersome to have it done, it's expensive, um painful, and um it can be aesthetically not pleasing in that, you know, there can be scarring.

[00:00:31]It tends to go away over time, but still, who wants to have it at at any time? I know most women don't want their faces Oh, definitely. cut up. Or men.

[00:00:42]Or men, of course.

[00:00:43]But um so um you know, that there's that, and then there's also a capacity issue. So, there's 5 million annual cases, but there's only treatment capacity in the United States for 1 million.

[00:00:57]>> Oh, okay. So, at any given >> yeah.