Every year, more than 1 million Americans are told they have either squamous cell skin cancer or basal cell skin cancer.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
American Cancer Society.
Cancer prevention and early detection: facts and figures 2008.
Available at http://www.cancer.org (accessed on 16 March 2009).

 

 

 

 

 

¹ About one-fifth of these (more than 200,000 people) have squamous cell skin cancer.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Alam M, Ratner D.
Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2001; 344: 975-83.

 

 

 

 

 

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Source:
Lohmann CM, Solomon AR.
Clinicopathologic variants of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.
Advances in Anatomic Pathology. 2001; 8: 27-36.

 

 

 

 

 

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Squamous cell skin cancer is becoming more common. Doctors think this is because people are spending more time in the sun than they used to, perhaps because they have more vacations.

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Alam M, Ratner D.
Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma.
New England Journal of Medicine. 2001; 344: 975-83.

 

 

 

 

 

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