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Skin cancers are the most common type of cancer; they affect nearly one million people each year [1]. This chapter focuses on nonmelanoma skin cancers.

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  1. Cuneyt Ebruli (Instructor of Radiation Oncology)

    Present address: Department of Radiation Oncology, Kocaeli State Hospital, Kocaeli, Turkey

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Gulhane Military Medical School, Ankara, Etlik, Turkey

    Murat Beyzadeoglu (Professor and Chairman of Radiation Oncology) & Cuneyt Ebruli (Instructor of Radiation Oncology)

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, 06100, Ankara, Turkey

    Gokhan Ozyigit (Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology)

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Beyzadeoglu, M., Ozyigit, G., Ebruli, C. (2010). Skin Cancer. In: Basic Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11666-7_12

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