Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide

Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide provides an incisive discussion of both normal and aging skin and the incidences and cause of skin cancer. It begins with a thorough, expert look at all types of skin cancer and important benign skin tumors, as well as dermatological manifestation of internal malignancy. Next, you’ll find a section on treating skin cancer in various patient populations, including children and pregnant women. The book concludes with in-depth sections on skin cancer patients, covering skin cancer vaccines and chemo prevention of cancer, the economic challenges issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer, and many other critical topics and issues.

Features

• • 275+ photos and illustrations
  • Includes cases highlighting key points, treatments, and diagnostic tips
  • Explains how to use lasers and optical coherence for diagnosis
  • Covers Mohs micrographic surgery, hyper Ig-E and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and confocal laser scanning microscop

SkinCancer

Tableof contents

Title

Section 1.

Cancer and Tumors

Author

1

Normal Skin

2

Aging Skin

3

Epidemiology of skin cancer

4

Etiology of skin cancer

5

The genetic basis of skin cancer

6

Basal Cell Carcinoma

7

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

8

Congenital Melanocytic Nevus

9

Spitz Tumors

10

Atypical Melanocytic Nevus

11

Malignant Melanoma

12

Cutaneous Lymphoma and Leukemias

13

Histocytosis

14

Mastocytosis