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| | MEDICAL BIOLOGY: UPDATE ON BASAL CELL CARCINOMA |
 | | Primary skin cancers are of two types: a) epidermal cancers, which originate in keratinocytes, melanocytes, or skin appendages such as sweat glands; b) dermal cancers, which originate in neural, vascular, and other tissues of the skin. |
 | | In animals, epithelial cells compose the cell layers that form the interface between a tissue and the external environment, for example, the cells of the skin, the lining of the intestinal tract, and the lung airway passages. |
 | | This cancer arises from the undifferentiated basal keratinocytes of the epidermis. |
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