squamous cell carcinoma


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squamous cell carcinoma

n.
A carcinoma that arises from squamous epithelium. It is the most common form of skin cancer and can also develop in the lungs and other organs.
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Noun1.squamous cell carcinoma - the most common form of skin cancer
skin cancer - a malignant neoplasm of the skin
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The present study was designed to determine the frequency of HPV in newly diagnosed patients of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. The rationale of this study was that no local study has been conducted to determine the frequency of HPV in OSCC which has a huge geographical variation.
Histologic Tumor Grade.--Based on the WHO classification, 3 histologic grades of conventional squamous cell carcinoma are used: well, moderately, and poorly differentiated.
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Oral cancer represents 5-10% of all human malignancies and 94% of all oral malignancies is squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) .1,2 It is one of the top ten most frequent cancers present around the globe with an incidence of 10-15/100,000 with male to female ratio of 2.5:1.
Squamous cell carcinoma of thyroid with lymph nodal and pulmonary metastases
Moderately differentiated squamous cell carcinoma and well-differentiated squamous cell carcinoma were proportionally high in males when compared to females, but there was no statistical significant difference.
Current biomarkers for lung cancer include carcinoma embryonic antigen (CEA), sialyl Lewis X antigen (SLX), squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) antigen, and cytokeratin fragment (CYFRA) 21-1, but these are not sensitive enough to detect tumors early, another professor Ryo Nagashio said in the study appears in The American Journal of Pathology.
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As stated in Introduction, among head and neck cancers, reported cases of concomitant squamous cell carcinoma and EPM are extremely rare, and this represents the first report of synchronous EPM and hypopharyngeal carcinoma.

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