Inclusion Criteria:  Patients of 18 years old or above who had capacity to consent to surgery who were willing to attend follow-up appointments within the department  Patients undergoing wide local excision as part of their skin cancer treatment pathway Lesions excised from the anterior chest or back Post-operative wound >/= 10mm width Wound could be closed with primary intention healing  Exclusion Criteria:  Inability to provide valid informed consent and/or unwilling to attend for follow-up  Wounds where the edges could not be closely adhered with dermal sutures alone. Wounds requiring a flap or graft for closure. Patients requiring further treatment following original excision eg. Further WLE, radiotherapy etc.