basal cell carcinoma

English

Alternative forms

• basal-cell carcinoma

Noun

basal cell carcinoma (countable and uncountable, plural basal cell carcinomas)

1. (pathology) A common type of nonmelanocytic skin cancer.
   • 2002, Wallace B. Morrison, Cancer in Dogs and Cats: Medical and Surgical Management, Teton NewMedia, →ISBN, page 470:

     Basal cell carcinoma is found most frequently on the head, neck, and limbs of cats. Histologic findings do not always correlate with aggressive behavior.

   • 2009, Noel Weidner, Richard J. Cote, Saul Suster, Lawrence M. Weiss, Modern Surgical Pathology, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1151:

     The malignant potential of adenoid cystic carcinoma/basal cell carcinoma is uncertain because of the small number of reported cases and limited follow-up, but some cases are malignant with EPE and distant metastases.

   • 2013, Gabrijela Kocjan, Winifred Gray, Philippe Vielh, Tanya Levine, Ika Kardum-Skelin, Diagnostic Cytopathology Essentials, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 369:

     Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most frequent of all cancers in fair-skinned populations.

Translations

type of skin cancer

• Catalan: carcinoma basocel·lular m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 基底細胞癌／基底细胞癌 (zh) (jīdǐ xìbāo ái)

• Finnish: basaliooma (fi), ihon tyvisolusyöpä
• French: carcinome basocellulaire m
• German: Basalzellkarzinom n, Basaliom n
• Korean: 기저세포암(基底細胞癌) (gijeosepoam)
• Romanian: carcinom bazocelular n
• Turkish: bazal hücreli cilt kanseri