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Help doctors! what're the types of skin cancer?

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Dr. Robert Alexander answered

Specializes in Plastic Surgery

Usually 3 major: Basal cell ca, squamous cell ca, and malignant melanoma are the main types of skin cancer. Bcc is usually locally damaging slow to spread; scc is more invasive and may spread via lymph vessels to nodes; mm is very invasive, and may rapidly spread via lymph ; small blood vessels.

Dr Rock and another doctor agreed

Answered 1/29/2014

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Dr. Fawn Winkelman answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Skin cancer: There is melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer known as squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma.

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Answered 3/30/2014

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