BIOL 4010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Trichloroacetic Acid, Photodynamic Therapy, Dermis

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Can be noncancerous or cancerous (tumors: when cells continue to grow when they should not, benign neoplasm: does not spread to other parts. It can still damage other organs/tissue around it. Can turn cancerous: type of benign skin neoplasms, skin tags, sebaceous hyperplasia, seborrheic keratosis, malignant neoplasms are cancerous. Travel to other parts of body to produce new tumors: types of malignant skin neoplasms, basal cell carcinoma most common skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma, melanoma, merkel cell carcinoma, lymphoma of skin. Incidences of skin cancers: basal cell carcinomas (70%, squamous cell carcinomas (20%, malignant melanomas (2%, because renal transplant patients on immunocompromised therapy, they are at higher risk of skin cancer. Greater risk of squamous cell >bcc: higher risk of malignant melanomas. Non-melanoma risk factors: primary risk factors: skin time (ability to tan), age (total uv exposure, smoking. Immunocompromised- organ transplant patients, increased risk of cancer medical suppression.

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