Anatomic location and histopathologic subtype of basal cell carcinomas in adults younger than 40 or 90 and older: Any difference?

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 201-206

  Betti, Roberto ^a   Radaelli, Giovanni ^a   Mussino, Fabio ^a   Menni, Silvano ^a   Crosti, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BACK; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THORAX;

EID: 58849103000     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2008.34410.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Gallagher RP, Ma B, McLean DI. Trends in basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma of the skin from 1973 through 1987. J Am Acad Dermatol 1990 23 : 413 21.
2. Harris R, Griffith K, Moon TE. Trends in the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer in southeastern Arizona, 1985-86. J Am Acad Dermatol 2001 45 : 528 36.
3. Raasch BA, Buettner PG, Garbe C. Basal cell carcinoma: histological classification and body site distribution. Br J Dermatol 2006 155 : 401 7.
4. Katalinic A, Kunze U, Schafer T. Epidemiology of cutaneous melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany: incidence, clinical subtypes, tumor stages and localization (epidemiology of skin cancer). Br J Dermatol 2003 149 : 1200 6.
5. Christenson LJ, Borrowman TA, Vachon CM, et al. Incidence of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas in a population younger than 40 years. JAMA 2005 294 : 681 90.
6. Roudier-Pujol C, Auperin A, Nguyen T, et al. Basal cell carcinoma in young adults: not more aggressive than in older patients. Dermatology 1999 199 : 119 23.
7. Karagas MR, Greenberg ER, Spencer SK, et al. Skin Cancer Study Group. Increase in incidence rates of basal cell and squamous cell skin cancer in New Hampshire, USA. Int J Cancer 1999 81 : 555 9.
8. Leffel DJ, Headington JT, Wong DS, Swanson NA. Aggressive-growth basal cell carcinoma in young adults. Arch Dermatol 1991 127 : 1663 7.
9. Cox NH. Basal cell carcinoma in young adults. Br J Dermatol 1992 127 : 26 9.
10. Bastiaens T, Hoefnagel JJ, Bruijn JA, et al. Differences in age, site, distribution, and sex between nodular, superficial basal cell carcinomas indicate different types tumors. J Invest Dermatol 1998 110 : 880 4.
11. Scrivener Y, Grosshans E, Cribier B. Variations of basal cell carcinomas according to gender, age, location and histopathological subtype. Br J Dermatol 2002 147 : 41 7.
12. Betti R, Inselvini E, Carducci M, Crosti C. Age and site prevalence of histologic subtypes of basal cell carcinomas. Int J Dermatol 1995 34 : 174 6.
13. Sexton M, Jones DB, Maloney ME. Histologic pattern analysis of basal cell carcinoma. J Am Acad Dermatol 1990 23 : 1118 26.
14. Inselvini E, Betti R, Perotta E, Crosti C. Age of patients and site of aggressive basal cell carcinomas. Eur J Dermatol 1993 3 : 648 50.
15. Holme SA, Malinovszky K, Roberts DL. Changing trends in non-melanoma skin cancer in South Wales, 1988-98. Br J Dermatol 2000 143 : 1224 29.
16. Pascual JC, Belinchon I, Ramos JM, et al. Skin tumors in patients aged 90 years and older. Derm Surg 2004 30 : 1017 20.
17. McCormack CJ, Kelly JW, Dorevitch AP. Differences in age and body site distribution of the histological subtypes of basal cell carcinoma. A possible indicator of differing causes. Arch Dermatol 1997 133 : 593 6.
18. Heckman M, Zogelmeier F, Konz B. Frequency of facial basal cell carcinoma does not correlate with site-specific UV exposure. Arch Dermatol 2002 138 : 1494 7.
19. Ramachandran S, Fryer AA, Smith A, et al. Basal cell carcinomas. Distinct host factors are associated with the development of tumors on the trunk and on the head and neck. Cancer 2001 92 : 354 8.
20. Lean JT, Smith AG, Bowers B, et al. Truncal tumor site is associated with high risk of multiple basal cell carcinoma and is influenced by glutathione S-transferase, GSTT1, and cytochrome P450, CYP1A1 genotypes and their interaction. J Invest Dermatol 1997 108 : 519 22.
21. D'Errico M, Calcagnile AS, Corona R, et al. P53 mutations and chromosome instability in basal cell carcinomas developed at an early or late age. Cancer Res 1997 57 : 747 52.