Occurrence of other malignancies in patients treated for basal cell carcinoma of the skin. A cohort study.
The patient with basal cell carcinoma of the skin has sometimes been thought to run an increased risk for developing other malignancies. A retrospective cohort study of 468 cases including about 4 400 person-years of observation did not reveal a significant deviation from expected values estimated either from cancer register data or from cancer incidence in matched controls.
D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D013548:Sweden