The Mohs procedure is considered the best method for treating certain types of skin cancer, because it has very high cure rates for even high-risk lesions, combined with maximal preservation of healthy tissues.

[2] His father died when he was 3 months old, and the family moved to Madison, where his mother ran a boarding house.

[2] The breakthrough came when he discovered that applying a combination zinc chloride and bloodroot paste to malignant rat skin tissue allowed it to be removed surgically and examined under a microscope.

Dermatologists, who are well trained in dermatopathology, and who treat skin cancers on a daily basis, quickly embraced the procedure.

[medical citation needed] In 1943, Mohs married Mary Ellen Reynolds, who died in 1995.