BACKGROUND On the basis of some case reports, a relationship has been suggested between hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and the development of nonmelanoma skin cancer. OBJECTIVES To confirm this relationship and to explore the risk of other cancers among patients with HS. PATIENTS Patients with a discharge diagnosis of HS were obtained from the computerized database of hospital discharge diag...

Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is a novel tool for noninvasive in vivo diagnosis of nonmelanoma skin cancer at high resolution. Given the excellent correlation that has been demonstrated between RCM findings and routine histology, clinicians using this imaging technique can establish an immediate diagnosis. Multiple studies have evaluated the use of RCM in melanoma and nonmelanoma skin c...

5-FU: 5-fluorouracil NMSC: nonmelanoma skin cancer SOTR: solid organ transplant recipient SCC: squamous cell carcinoma INTRODUCTION Immunosuppression associated with solid organ transplantation significantly increases the rate of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) development, in particular squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs). In certain cases, the rate at which these malignancies develop can be too ra...

Between 1994 and 2011, an average of 6,899 cases of invasive skin cancer was diagnosed per year in Ireland. Malignant melanoma accounted for just over 8% of this number; the vast bulk of all invasive skin cancers being non-melanomatous subtypes, of which over 6,300 were diagnosed each year (Table 1). Over 95% of these “nonmelanoma” skin cancers were histologically diagnosed and almost all were ...