Skin lesion leads to more cancer types than once believed

Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 15:35 in Health & Medicine

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Actinic keratoses are sun-damaged rough patches or lesions on the skin -- often pink and scaly -- that doctors have long believed can turn into a form of skin cancer known as squamous cell carcinoma.

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