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skin biopsy done on a wart on may face and the results said it was an atypical basaloid..report said it was difficult to categorize..is this cancer?
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Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered
49 years experience Pathology
Need more info: You and your doctor should talk to the pathologists who signed out the tissue report.
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Answered on Nov 12, 2017
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