Skin cancer

Every single skin cancer has to be entered, even if two types of the same skin cancer are diagnosed on the same day in different locations.You can add the location in the comment field if in your center all the biopsies taken on one day have the same biopsy number or simply to help you identify your entries.

Actinic keratosis as a precancer is only to be entered if a biopsy of it has been taken.

Bezeichnung (description) (Dermato)pathologie	Eintrag (entry) STCS
Aktinische Keratose	Other only with histology results
Aktinische Keratose mit initialer Kanzerierung	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Basaliom	Skin, basal cell carcinoma
Basalioma multiloculare	Skin, basal cell carcinoma
Basalzellkarzinom	Skin, basal cell carcinoma
Basosquamöses Karzinom	Skin, basal cell carcinoma
Bowenkarzinom	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Carcinoma in situ	Other
Epithelioma métatypique mixte	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Intraepitheliale Neoplasie I/II/II	Other
Kaposi’s Sarkoma	Other->has to be entered in cancer other than skin
Keratoakanthom	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Lentigo maligna	Other
Lentigo maligna Melanom	Skin, melanoma
Lentigo simplex	No history of skin cancer
Lentigo solaris	No history of skin cancer
Melanozytäre Läsion unklarer Dignität	Skin, melanoma
MELTUMP	Skin, melanoma
Merkelzellkarzinom	Other
Morbus Bowen	Other
Morbus Bowen mit initialer Kanzerisierung	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Plattenepithelkarzinom der Haut	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Porokeratose	Other
Rumpfhautbasaliom	Skin, basal cell carcinoma
Seborrhoische Keratose	No history of skin cancer
Spinaliom	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Spinozelluläres Karzinom	Skin, squamous cell carcinoma
Superfizielles Basalzellkarzinom	Skin, basal cell carcinoma

The most important information is the year in which a tumor was diagnosed; the exact day and month are certainly helpful, but far less important. It is important that spinocellular carcinomas, for example, are not recorded only once, but that each spinocellular carcinoma is recorded with its own entry: This allows patients with a particularly high risk of spinocellular carcinoma and particularly pronounced cutaneous carcinogenesis to be identified. Since many transplant recipients suffer from at least one spinocellular carcinoma, this differentiation is otherwise lost if only the fact of spinocellular carcinoma itself is recorded once.

Günther Hofbauer 8. September 2009 Update 21.12.2012