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Three types of skin cancer account for nearly 100% of all diagnosed cases. Each of these three cancers begins in a different type of cell within the skin, and each cancer is named for the type of cell in which it begins. Skin cancers are divided into one of two classes -- non-melanoma skin cancers and melanoma. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. The different types of skin cancer are: Basal cell carcinoma (BCC); Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC); Melanoma. All other skin cancers combined account for less than 1% of diagnosed cases. These are classified as non-melanoma skin cancers and include Merkel cell carcinoma, dermatofibromasarcoma protuberans, Paget's disease and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. This book examines the latest research in this field.

Table of Contents

Preface; Novel Therapeutic Strategy for the Treatment of Malignant Melanoma; Childhood Melanoma; The Incidence of Melanocytic Naevi (Moles) in Young Children; Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Clinically Node-Negative Patients with Cutaneous Melanoma: Prognostic and Therapeutic Implications; Preliminary Results of a Melanoma Referral Centre on the Trends in Malignant Melanoma in Turkey; Cell Adhesion Molecule Expression in Melanoma Progression: The Staging System of the Future?; Biopsy of Sentinel Lymph Nodes in the Malignant Melanoma of the Skin; Radiation and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers; Targeted Therapy in Treatment of Melanoma; Index.

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