Can you get basal cell cancer in lung?

Rare: Rare basal cell carcinomas can extend deep into the skin or can spread. This is extremely rare.

Very very rarely: Basal cell cancers typically only grow locally. They can be locally aggressive and given enough time they can and will invade and damage any nearby structures. It is extremely rare for them to spread to either lymph nodes or to have distant metastasis, although it has been reported.

Yes, but rare: Basal cell carcinoma of the skin has been known to metastasize to the lung. Depending on the number of spots or metastasize, they may be able to be removed surgically and minimally invasively.

Yes, very rare: Basal cell carcinoma is locally invasive, aggressive, and destructive effects of this tumor on skin and surrounding thus usually diagnosed and treated early. , it is very rare to see a metastatic bcc. Estimates of the metastatic bcc have ranged from 0.0029 to 0.55 %. It can spread to the lung, bone, liver. An oral hedgehog pathway inhibitor , vismodegib, is recently approved to treat metastatic bcc.