Epidemiology

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common malignancy of the skin in white adults in the US, Australia, and Europe, and its incidence is increasing.[12][13] CRUK: cancer incidence statistics Opens in new window​ BCC occurs in all ethnicities, and it may be missed in Asian and black skin.[14]

BCC may not be reported to cancer registries or, when it is, may be recorded under the term "nonmelanoma skin cancer."[15][16] Determining the exact incidence of BCC is therefore difficult. Using procedure rate code numbers from a US Medicare dataset and claims filed for approved procedures with associated ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases Ninth Revision) diagnosis codes, the 2012 age-adjusted procedure rate for BCC was estimated to be 3280 per 100,000 beneficiaries.[16]

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