Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide, 1st Edition

The most up-to-date information on the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancers

The high prevalence of skin cancer makes it crucial that physicians adequately understand the disease and its treatment. Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide provides the vital tools needed to successfully detect and treat this illness–improving patient wellness and survival. Covering the full spectrum of skin cancers, the book provides essential information on diagnosis and treatment options. The text opens with an incisive discussion of both normal and aging skin and the incidences and causes of skin cancer, and is followed by descriptions of the various types of skin cancer and important benign tumors, and the dermatological manifestation of internal malignancy.

Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide covers all the topics most important to clinicians and students, including the use of lasers and optical coherence tomography in skin cancer diagnosis, Mohs micrographic surgery, Hyper IgE and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and confocal laser scanning microscopy.

Features:

Summaries and clinical pearls for each chapter
Patient education points
Case studies
Color illustrations
Treatment procedures for various patient populations, including children and pregnant women
Information on skin cancer vaccines and chemo-prevention of cancer
Coverage of:

• -Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• -Malignant Melanoma
• -Cutaneous Lymphoma and Leukemias
• -Sarcomas-Sweat Gland Tumors
• -Vascular Tumors of the Skin
• -Eyelid, Oral, and Genital Cancers
• -Paget’s disease
• -HPV Associated Skin Cancers
• -Skin Cancer in Transplant and HIV Patients
• -Non-Melanoma and Melanoma Skin Cancers

Table of Contents

Title

Section 1.

Cancer and Tumors

Author

1 Normal Skin

2 Aging Skin

3 Epidemiology of skin cancer

4 Etiology of skin cancer

5 The genetic basis of skin cancer

6 Basal Cell Carcinoma

7 Squamous Cell Carcinoma

8 Congenital Melanocytic Nevus

9 Spitz Tumors

10 Atypical Melanocytic Nevus

11 Malignant Melanoma

12 Cutaneous Lymphoma and Leukemias

13 Histocytosis

14 Mastocytosis

15 Fibrohistiocytic Tumors

16 Sarcomas

17 Sweat Gland Tumors

18 Sebaceous Carcinoma

19 Hair Follicle Tumors

20 Merkel Cell Carcinoma

21 Tumors of Nail Unit

22 Vascular Tumors of The Skin