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Epidemiology of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin

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Although often collectively named “keratinocyte skin cancers” or less specifically “non-melanoma skin cancers”, basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are two quite different skin cancer types each with distinct epidemiological features, ranging from different typical age of onset, to different mortality rates, to different causal pathways.

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    Reinhard Dummer

  2. Mayo Clinic, Dept. Dermatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 1st St SW., 200, Rochester, 55905, Minnesota, USA

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van der Pols, J.C. (2010). Epidemiology of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin. In: Dummer, R., Pittelkow, M., Iwatsuki, K., Green, A., Elwan, N. (eds) Skin Cancer - A World-Wide Perspective. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05072-5_1

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