WHAT’S THIS PROCEDURE?

Cryotherapy means “treatment using low temperature” and refers to removal of skin lesions by freezing.

The most popular agent used by doctors is liquid nitrogen. It’s most commonly used to remove actinic keratoses (an area of sun-damaged skin found predominantly on sun-exposed parts of the body), viral warts, seborrhoeic keratosis, Bowen’s disease and other benign lesions. Occasionally, your dermatologist may suggest using cryotherapy to treat a superficial type of a low-grade skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma. Liquid