Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide

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With hundreds of color illustrations—this comprehensive guide provides everything you need to know about cutaneous malignancies

Skin Cancer: A Comprehensive Guide provides an incisive discussion of both normal and aging skin and the incidences and cause of skin cancer. It begins with a thorough, expert look at all types of skin cancer and important benign skin tumors, as well as dermatological manifestation of internal malignancy. Next, you’ll find a section on treating skin cancer in various patient populations, including children and pregnant women. The book concludes with in-depth sections on skin cancer patients, covering skin cancer vaccines and chemo prevention of cancer, the economic challenges issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer, and many other critical topics and issues.

Features

• 275+ photos and illustrations

• Includes cases highlighting key points, treatments, and diagnostic tips

• Explains how to use lasers and optical coherence for diagnosis

• Covers Mohs micrographic surgery, hyper Ig-E and hypereosinophilic syndromes, and confocal laser scanning microscopy