Dermatology question?

[lunacycles]

I question whether one should trust the doctor given my experience of over half a dozen basal cell carcinomas being treated in the "conventional" way.
If the cream being presicribed is Aldara, then it's a cream which will attack a skin cancer and draw it out. And, if it's more than pre-cancerous, it can be a process, and somewhat painful. (If you google it, beware, as you will hear horror stories in addition to those which praise it.) I used Aldara on the back of my neck, and while it "responded" fully (i.e., created a festering wound which took about a month to heal), it also made my lymph nodes in my neck go berserk-- which no one warned me of, and cost me a trip and tests with an ENT specialist who thought I might have lymphoma... = $$$...blah blah. Plus the Aldara itself, like 3 grams, ran me over $200. Ridiculous.
Anyway, Aldara is apparently effective, and probably going to do the trick more than the conventional "freezing" (which I've done to mixed effect, but has resulted in an 8" scar on my arm when it did nothing but bury the cancer and then a much larger area had to be cut out) and while Aldara was effective for me, it was somewhat traumatic to use.
I now avoid dermatologists as much as possible, because the ones I've encountered have not been real sharp, have been expensive, and generally caused disfiguring results.
Knowing skin cancer will probably be a recurring part of my life from here on out I now rely on a (subversive, off-the-map) herbal black salve to treat pre-cancerous, or cancerous spots (am not bothering with the biopsies, I know what they look like) to treat my "spots," so far to good effect. It works like aldara, but I am in charge and this makes me happy.
That was no doubt TMI, but good luck to you. Skin cancer sucks, but it's better than other cancers, but it requires a life-long commitment to keep at bay if you are fair skinned and have suffered a lot of sun exposure.
p.s., use sun screens that are not chemically based, whenever possible. I have done so and my skin cancers have decreased dramatically.