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Bowen's disease
Intraepidermal
carcinoma is just another name for an early pre-invasive form of squamous cell skin
cancer. It is also called squamous cell carcinoma-in-situ. Pre-invasive means
that there are cancer cells there. But they are confined to the outermost layer of
skin, the epidermis. This means that the disease is very unlikely to have spread to
the lymph nodes. But It does often spread along the skin surface. If left
untreated, the Bowen's disease can develop into an invasive cancer and spread into the
lymphatic system . It does take a long time for Bowen's disease to develop into an
invasive cancer. But the risk remains as long as the Bowen's has not been treated. |
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