Laser Skin Cancer Therapy – Dr Peter Kim

With advent of new technologies such as lasers, some skin cancers can be both treated non surgically and with cosmetic satisfaction.

Advantanges of Laser Skin Cancer Therapy are:

• avoid surgery and avoid surgical scars
• no downtime and no need to take time off work
• highly effective

The cost for Laser Skin Cancer Therapies are $350-500 for one cancer. There is a medicare rebate of about $100.

The following video demonstrates treating Bowen’s Disease with Laser Skin Cancer Therapy.

The first step is to mark the skin cancer boundaries. Local anaesthetic is injected. Then, using a laser, skin cancer is treated layer by layer until it is completely gone.