title: Host-tumor relationships in basal cell and squamous cell cancer of the skin.
abstract: We suggest that aggressive clinical tumor behavior correlates with the presence of squamous differentiation and with irregularities in the peripheral palisading of basal cell carcinomas. The concept of non-melanoma skin cancer being a basosquamous continuum may help in formulating a method for prognosis in patients who had removed tumors with a pathologist's report of a "positive margin."
mesh_terms: D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008214:Lymphocytes; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology