BACKGROUND The two most common skin cancers are basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). The purpose of this study was to describe the detailed clinical behavior of BCC and SCC in the head and neck region over 19 years at a single institution. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed for all patients with non-melanoma skin cancer who had undergone surgical resection...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is one of the most common skin cancers. In this paper, we present an automatic BCC detector based on confocal Raman spectroscopy. Maximum a posterior (MAP) classifier was adopted as a detector using features obtained with principal component analysis (PCA). Fisher measure filtering (FMF) is proposed to enhance the performance of BCC detector. Since FMF eliminates non-...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common skin cancer with a steadily increasing incidence. Ultraviolet radiation is considered the single most important risk factor for BCC, because the tumor occurs most frequently in sun-exposed areas of the body, with approximately four of five BCCs occurring on the face. BCC occurs infrequently in non-sun-exposed skin. The axilla is one of the most sun-...

A perturbation theory is used to calculate bcc solid-liquid interfacial free energies of metallic systems with embedded-atom model potentials. As a reference system for bcc crystals we used a single-occupancy cell, hard-sphere bcc system. Good agreements between the perturbation theory results and the corresponding results from simulations are found. The strategy to extract hard-sphere bcc soli...

Cutaneous basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is a common malignancy amongst the elderly. BCC rarely metastasises, and fewer than 300 cases of metastatic BCC have been reported in the literature. Here, we report a case of sequentially developed BCCs located adjacent to each other. We discuss that these BCCs were considered to have developed independently rather than due to metastasis, after referencing ...

Introduction Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most commonly occurring cancer worldwide, and the overall incidence is still rising. Unfortunately, the cancer registry in Poland does not record BCC individually. Thus, the incidence of BCC in a defined population is unknown. Aim Analysis of incidence rates of primary BCC in central Poland during 16 years considering sex, site distribution and a...

It is well-known that UV light exposure and a sun-sensitive phenotype are risk factors for the development of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), including basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). In this New Hampshire population-based case-control study, we collected data from 5,072 individuals, including histologically confirmed cases of BCC and SCC, and controls via a perso...

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have primarily focused on the association between individual genetic markers and risk of disease. We applied a novel approach that integrates skin expression-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (eSNPs) and pathway analysis for GWAS of basal cell carcinoma (BCC) to identify potential novel biological pathways. We evaluated the associations between 70,9...

INTRODUCTION Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is the most common malignancy in the United States, with more than 5.4 million cases diagnosed annually.1 NMSC is categorized as either basal cell carcinoma (BCC) or squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), with BCC occurring at a fourfold to fi vefold higher rate than SCC. Standard fi rst-line treatment of BCC usually involves local procedures, such as curett...

The existence and stability under pressure of three phases of vanadium are calculated from first principles. The phases are one body-centered cubic (bcc) and two rhombohedral phases (rh(u) and rh(l)), which have greater and lower α values than the primitive bcc rhombohedral cell. The bcc phase is shown in two ways to become unstable at 0.65 Mbar, in agreement with an observed phase transition, ...