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Dr Kara Heelan
The Royal Marsden
What side effects might I experience from skin cancer treatments?
Transcript
From the local treatments such as cryotherapy or creams to treat skin cancers you will get local inflammation, redness, sometimes peeling and crusting.
From radiotherapy you will also develop redness, peeling and crusting at the site that is treated.
From surgery you can have some numbness sometimes in an area, you have scarring and sometimes just some discomfort.
And then from other treatments such as immunotherapy and targeted therapies you can develop a whole range of side effects but in particular skin rashes and these can range from dry skin and itch to much more serious rashes that are blistering.