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Lip Cancer
Aka: Lip Cancer, Lip Neoplasm, Basal Cell Carcinoma of the Lip
- See Also
- Lip Exam
- Oral Growth
- Pathophysiology
- Categorized as a skin cancer
- Risk Factors
- Prolonged Sun Exposure
- Pipe smoking
- Symptoms
- Recurrent or non-healing Lip Ulcer
- Signs
- Ulcer with overlying crust
- Borders of ulcer are heaped up
- Course
- Contiguous spread of untreated tumors
- Prognosis
- Survival: 90% (similar to skin cancers)
- References
- Diaz in Noble (2001) Primary Care Medicine, p. 1757
- Weinberg (2002) Am Fam Physician 65(7):1379-86