Surgery for larger skin cancers

Find out about the different types of surgery for larger skin cancers or cancer that has spread.

You usually have your skin cancer operation as a day patient with local anaesthetic. But for larger operations, you might have a general anaesthetic and be asleep for the operation.

You usually have surgery under a local anaesthetic. But you might have a a general anaesthetic if you need to have a larger operation.

Your recovery time will depend on the type of surgery you had. You might have surgery as a day patient or spend a night in hospital if you had a larger operation.