Skin cancer

Skin cancers refer to malignancies arising from the skin.

This is a general discussion of skin cancers, for discussions of specific skin cancers please refer to individual articles.

Epidemiology

Overall, skin cancers are the most common human malignancy.

Pathology

Primary skin malignancy can be classified according to the skin cell the cancer originates from:

• melanotic
  • malignant melanoma
• non-melanocytic
  • common
    • squamous cell carcinoma
    • basal cell carcinoma
  • uncommon
    • keratoacanthoma
    • Merkel cell carcinoma
    • Kaposi sarcoma
    • dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
    • microcystic adnexal carcinoma
    • Paget disease of the breast
    • atypical fibroxanthoma
    • leiomyosarcoma
    • angiosarcoma