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There was also had a higher incidence of another less serious type of skin cancer called squamous-cell carcinoma.
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There was also had a higher incidence of another less serious type of skin cancer called squamous-cell carcinoma.
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Most, at an estimated 2 million-plus new cases each year, are basal-cell and squamous-cell skin cancers.
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If the nation had no dermatologists, there wouldn't be many more deaths; they do diagnose some malignant diseases, mostly squamous-cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma, but the majority of these would be found, in a treatable stage, by well-trained primary-care physicians.
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Most, at an estimated 2 million-plus new cases each year, are basal-cell and squamous-cell skin cancers.
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It's better to catch basal - and squamous-cell, as well as melanoma carcinomas, early.
Gary S. Chafetz: The Continuing Health-Care Debacle in America 2010
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Basal-cell carcinomas and squamous-cell carcinomas tend to be red to pink and crusty, and bleed easily.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that every 1 percent reduction in the ozone concentrations increases basal and squamous-cell skin cancers (the least dangerous kinds) by 2-3 percent and increases malignant melanoma skin cancers (the most dangerous kind) by 1-2 percent.
Antarctic ozone hole 2009
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Suspicious spots were cut out and sent to a lab; a few days later I learned that I'd sprouted a dysplastic nevus -- a mole that might morph into melanoma -- on my neck, a squamous-cell cancer on my collarbone and a melanoma on my shoulder.
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And I remembered how disfiguring the treatment for basal - and squamous-cell cancer was -- I have enough surgery scars to call myself the Bride of Frankenstein.
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