By Genevra Pittman
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - More than one quarter of people being treated for non-melanoma skin cancer in their doctor's office reported some type of complication after surgery, in a new study.
About half of those complications were medical problems related to the cancer-removing procedure, including pain, infections and slow wound healing.
But just 3 percent of doctors noted a complication in the same patients' medical records, researchers reported this week in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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