Study to Determine if Tissue Scored With a Scalpel Results in Any Noticeable Marks

Completed · Phase 2/Phase 3

Conditions studied: Skin Cancer

In brief

Mohs Micrographic Surgery is a well established method for treatment of cutaneous malignancies. Part of this technique requires marking skin surrounding the tumor. There are two ways of marking the tissue, lightly scoring it with a scalpel or marking it with a surgical marker. This study is to determine if there is a noticeable difference in outcome between patients who have their tissue lightly scored with a scalpel or marked with a surgical marking pen.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00367042

Run by

University of California, Davis

People needed

98

Starts

2005-07-01

Expected to finish

2008-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-16

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who are able to legally consent to study and are scheduled for Mohs Micrographic Surgery to remove their malignancies

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who are unable to legally consent themselves, do not wish to participate or who are not scheduled to undergo Mohs Micrographic Surgery.
• Children, those with mental handicaps, pregnant women, prisoners, those with cognitive impairments, and life-threatening diseases will be excluded.

Where it is running

• UC Davis Medical Center Department of Dermatology — Sacramento, California, United States

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