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Actinic keratoses: preceded squamous cell cancer in 29%. (Follow-up of About 3 Years).
PARIS -- Patients with actinic keratoses are destined to develop skin cancer, so they definitely should be treated and followed, Dr. Gloria F. Graham said at the 20th World Congress of Dermatology.
That conclusion, based on more than 40 cumulative years of patient follow-up, essentially endorses the view that actinic keratoses (AK) represent an early stage in a continuum that leads to squamous cell carcinoma.
In a poster presentation, Dr. Graham and her colleagues at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., described their findings from a 5-year longitudinal study of 80 fair-complexioned white patients who had 119 proven AK at baseline and were living in the area of Morehead City, N.C.
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