New title bringing together the information and guidance necessary to effectively treat and diagnose skin cancer.

Comprehensive and well illustrated, this will prove ideal for dermatologists and general practitioners. Covers normal and aging skin, the incidences and causes of skin cancer, types of skin and cancer treatment in various patient populations, skin cancer prevention including skin cancer vaccines and chemoprevention of skin cancer, and the medico legal and economic issues related to skin cancer.

Contents

• Skin Cancer

• Normal skin

• Skin cancer epidemiology

• Skin cancer etiology

• Skin cancer genetics

• Basal cell carcinomas

• Squamous cell carcinomas

• Melanoma

• Atypical nevi

• Spitz nevus

• Merkel cell tumors

• Adnexal tumors

• Cutaneous lymphomas

• Sarcomas

• Vascular neoplasms

• Fibrohistiocytic tumors

• Paget’s disease

• Skin cancers in transplant patients

• Skin cancers in HIV patients

• Syndromes associated with skin cancers

• Dermatologic manifestations of internal malignancy

• Surgical excision/ biopsy techniques

• Cryosurgery

• Mohs micrographic surgery