basal cell carcinoma

basal cell carcinoma

English

Alternative forms

• basal-cell carcinoma

Noun

basal cell carcinoma (countable and uncountable, plural basal cell carcinomas)

1. (medicine) A common type of nonmelanocytic skin cancer.
   • 2002, Wallace B. Morrison, Cancer in Dogs and Cats: Medical and Surgical Management, Teton NewMedia (→ISBN), page 470

     Basal cell carcinoma is found most frequently on the head, neck, and limbs of cats. Histologic findings do not always correlate with aggressive behavior.

   • 2009, Noel Weidner, Richard J. Cote, Saul Suster, Lawrence M. Weiss, Modern Surgical Pathology, Elsevier Health Sciences (→ISBN), page 1151

     The malignant potential of adenoid cystic carcinoma/basal cell carcinoma is uncertain because of the small number of reported cases and limited follow-up, but some cases are malignant with EPE and distant metastases.

   • 2013, Gabrijela Kocjan, Winifred Gray, Philippe Vielh, Tanya Levine, Ika Kardum-Skelin, Diagnostic Cytopathology Essentials, Elsevier Health Sciences (→ISBN), page 369

     Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most frequent of all cancers in fair-skinned populations.

Translations

type of skin cancer