The most common type of skin cancer is basal cell carcinoma, also known as BCC. It is a cancer that behaves benignly and does not spread to lymph nodes. This type of skin cancer is easily distinguished from other types of cancer and is now evaluated daily by the pathologist. “That’s half my diagnostics a day. This takes up a lot of precious time, which I can better spend finding dangerous and deadly cancers, like melanomas, more quickly.”