Metastatic Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Biological Continuum of Basal Cell Carcinoma?

• Main Authors: Karaninder S. Mehta (Author), Vikram K. Mahajan (Author), Pushpinder S. Chauhan (Author), Anju Lath Sharma (Author), Vikas Sharma (Author), C. Abhinav (Author), Gayatri Khatri (Author), Neel Prabha (Author), Saurabh Sharma (Author), Muninder Negi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) accounts for 80% of all nonmelanoma skin cancers. Its metastasis is extremely rare, ranging between 0.0028 and 0.55 of all BCC cases. The usual metastasis to lymph nodes, lungs, bones, or skin is from the primary tumor situated in the head and neck region in nearly 85% cas...