What is Skin Cancer?
What is Skin Cancer?
Skin cancer is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the skin. Skin cancer is a common disease, ...more »
- Skin Cancer: Cancer of the skin; the most common type of cancer.
- Skin Cancer: a malignant neoplasm of the skin.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Skin Cancer: Introduction
Types of Skin Cancer:
Types of Skin Cancer:
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Animal dips
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Briquette making
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Chimney Sweeps
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Coal Gas Manufacture
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Coke Oven Workers
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Construction Workers
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Farmers
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Fisherfolk
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Germicidal Lamps
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Insecticide applicators
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Lathe Operators
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Mule Spinners
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Open-Cut mines
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Reactor Workers
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Rubber Manufacturing Industry
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Tar Distillers
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- TileWorkers
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Timber Proofers
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Tool Setters
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- UV Curing Processes
- Occupational Skin Cancer -- Welders
- Desmoplastic neurotrophic melanoma
- Cutaneous desmoplastic melanoma
- Animal-type melanoma
- Angiomatoid melanoma
- Angiotropic melanoma
- Balloon cell metastatic melanoma
- Dermal melanoma
- Cutaneous metastatic melanoma
- Follicular malignant melanoma
- Giant cell malignant melanoma
- Lipoblast-like malignant melanoma
- Monster cell malignant melanoma
- Myxoid melanoma
- Chondroid melanoma
- Nevoid melanoma
- Osteogenic melanoma
- Spitzoid melanoma
- Small cell melanoma
- Signet ring cell melanoma
- Rhabdoid melanoma
- Primary malignant melanoma
- Secondary melanoma
- Metastatic skin cancer
- Spindle cell carcinoma
- Sebaceous gland carcinoma
- T-cell lymphoma of the skin
- Sarcoma of the skin
- Cutaneous lymphoma
- Skin adnexal tumor
- Adnexal and Skin Appendage Neoplasms
- Squamous Cell Skin Cancer
- Melanoma
- CDK4 linked melanoma
- Acral lentiginous melanoma
- Basal Cell Carcinoma, Susceptibility to, 6
- Basal Cell Carcinoma, Susceptibility to, 5
- Basal Cell Carcinoma, Susceptibility to, 4
- Basal Cell Carcinoma, Susceptibility to, 3
- Basal Cell Carcinoma, Susceptibility to, 2
- Basal Cell Carcinoma, Susceptibility to, 1
- Pigmented basal cell carcinoma
- Superficial basal cell carcinoma
- Morphoeic basal cell carcinoma
- Nodular basal cell carcinoma
- Bowen's disease
- Lentigo maligna
- Mycosis fungoides
- Rodent ulcer
- Nodular melanoma
- Lentigo maligna melanoma
- Superficial spreading melanoma
- Primary malignant melanoma of the cervix
- Melanoma, familial
- Merkel cell cancer
- Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
- Melanoma -- astrocytoma syndrome
- Basal cell carcinoma, multiple
- Acrospiroma
- Angiosarcoma of the scalp
- Acanthoma
- Glomus vagale tumors
- Bednar's tumor
- Primary granulocytic sarcoma
- Basal cell carcinoma, infundibulocystic
- Basisquamous basal cell carcinoma
- Basal cell carcinomas with milia and coarse, sparse hair
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome
- Squamous cell carcinoma, cutaneous
- Noduloulcerative basal cell carcinoma
- Syringocystadenoma papilliferum
- Leiomyoma, hereditary multiple, of skin
- Segmental neurofibromatosis
- Neurofibromatosis, type 4, of Riccardi
- Neurofibromatosis type 3A
- Neurofibromatosis type 3B
- Neurofibromatosis type 6
- Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF-1)
- Neurofibromatosis-1
- Neurofibromatosis syndrome Type II
- Neurofibromatosis syndrome
- Palmoplantar keratoderma -- XX sex reversal -- predisposition to squamous cell carcinoma
- Atypical mole syndrome
- De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome
- Multiple fibrofolliculoma familial
- Hereditary keratoacanthoma
- Ancell's syndrome
- Elephant man in context of NF
- Bowen Disease
- Hutchinson's Melanotic Freckle
- Eccrine acrospiroma
- Familial multiple trichodiscomas
- Keratoacanthoma
- Familial cylindromatosis
- Pilomatrixoma
- Follicular hamartoma -- alopecia -- cystic fibrosis
- Leiomyomatosis familial
- Rombo syndrome
- Proliferating trichilemmal cyst
- Puretic syndrome
- Carney syndrome
- Bazex-Dupre-Christol syndrome
- Birt-Hogg-Dube syndrome
- more types...»
Broader types of Skin Cancer:
How many people get Skin Cancer?
Incidence (annual) of Skin Cancer: more than 1 million annually (mostly the less dangerous types: basal and squamous)
Incidence Rate of Skin Cancer: approx 1 in 272 or 0.37% or 1 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Skin Cancer:
more than 1 million new
cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed in the United States this year. (Source: excerpt from Skin Cancer: NWHIC)
Incidence of Skin Cancer: Each year, about a million people in the United States
learn that they have skin cancer . (Source: excerpt from What You Need To Know About Skin Cancer: NCI)
Who gets Skin Cancer?
Patient Profile for Skin Cancer: Typically over 50.
How serious is Skin Cancer?
Prognosis of Skin Cancer: The prognosis is variable depending on the type of skin cancer. Most skin cancers have a good prognosis if they are detected and treated in a timely manner.
What causes Skin Cancer?
Causes of Skin Cancer: see causes of Skin Cancer
Risk factors for Skin Cancer:
see
risk factors for Skin Cancer
What are the symptoms of Skin Cancer?
Symptoms of Skin Cancer:
see symptoms of Skin Cancer
Can anyone else get Skin Cancer?
Contagion of cancer: generally not; see details in contagion of cancer.
Skin Cancer: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Skin Cancer.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Skin Cancer.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Skin Cancer:
see treatments for Skin Cancer
Alternative treatments for Skin Cancer:
see alternative treatments for Skin Cancer
Prevention of Skin Cancer:
see prevention of Skin Cancer
Research for Skin Cancer:
see research for Skin Cancer
Society issues for Skin Cancer
Hospitalization statistics for Skin Cancer:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Skin Cancer:
- 0.49% (63,037) of hospital episodes were for malignant neoplasms of skin in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 99% of hospital consultations for malignant neoplasms of skin required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 54% of hospital episodes for malignant neoplasms of skin were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 46% of hospital episodes for malignant neoplasms of skin were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 2% of hospital admissions for malignant neoplasms of skin required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Skin Cancer:
Organs and body systems related to Skin Cancer include:
Name and Aliases of Skin Cancer
Main name of condition: Skin Cancer
Class of Condition for Skin Cancer: cancer
Other names or spellings for Skin Cancer:
skin tumor, Basal cell cancer
Acanthoma
Source - WordNet 2.1
Skin Cancer: Related Conditions
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