BJD Editor's Choice

Accurate counting of nonmelanoma skin cancer in fair-skinned populations remains challenging due to high event rates. In the past, epidemiology data have often been limited to collection of the number of people affected, rather than the number of tumours. Venables and coauthors report on pathology data from across the U.K., which identified the first basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) each year in 2013 –2015 across the U.K. European age-standardized incidence rates of the first BCC and cSCC per patient per annum were 285 and 77 per 100 000 person-years, respectively.
Source: Journal of Investigative Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Tags: Editor's Choice Source Type: research