{"id":39894,"date":"2018-12-14T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T10:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.yuveo.eu\/lexikon\/white-skin-cancer\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:18:48","slug":"white-skin-cancer","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/lexikon\/white-skin-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"White skin cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>What is white skin cancer?<\/h2>\n
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Illustrations: White skin cancer: Above: basal cell carcinoma under the ear and below: spinalioma on the ear.<\/p>\n

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White skin cancer<\/strong>, also known as light skin cancer<\/strong>, is not white. It includes basal cell carcinoma<\/strong> and spinalioma<\/strong> (= squamous cell carcinoma). The forms and colors can be varied. The term ‘white skin cancer’ is intended as a contrast to the so-called ‘black skin cancer’, malignant melanoma<\/strong>. Although this sounds like black and white painting, it makes sense in terms of malignancy. <\/p>\n

Black skin cancer<\/strong> is extremely aggressive<\/strong> and can spread even if it is small. In contrast, white skin cancer is less aggressive. However, it should not be underestimated under any circumstances. <\/p>\n

A white skin cancer can also be dark!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apart from the fact that a white skin cancer is not white (as you can see from the illustrations), it can even be dark. A rare form of basal cell carcinoma is pigmented basal cell carcinoma<\/strong>. This is dark brown, like a mole. <\/p>\n

Overall, the term ‘white skin cancer’ should therefore only be used with caution. It is more accurate to use the respective terms basal cell carcinoma and spinalioma. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Is basal cell carcinoma a white skin cancer?<\/h2>\n

Basal cell carcinoma<\/strong> is a white skin cancer that is often referred to as semi-malignant<\/strong>. This is because it does not<\/strong> normally spread<\/strong>, but continues to grow in its location, destroying<\/strong> the tissue (fatty tissue, cartilage, bone, etc.) and increasing in size. <\/p>\n

Further information on treatment<\/strong>, including surgery<\/strong>, can be found under basal cell carcinoma \/ basal cell carcinoma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>How should spinalioma be classified?<\/h2>\n

Spinalioma<\/strong> is also a so-called white skin cancer. It is generally considered malignant as it can spread<\/strong>. However, small spinaliomas hardly spread and are treated surgically like basal cell carcinoma. <\/p>\n

Further information on treatment<\/strong>, including surgery<\/strong>, can be found under spinalioma \/ squamous cell carcinoma.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White skin cancer, also known as light skin cancer, is not white. It includes basal cell carcinoma and spinalioma (= squamous cell carcinoma). The forms and colors can be varied. The term ‘white skin cancer’ is intended as a contrast to the so-called ‘black skin cancer’, malignant melanoma. Although this sounds like black and white painting, it makes sense in terms of malignancy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","encyclopedia-tag":[171,172],"class_list":["post-39894","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-tag-hautkrebs","encyclopedia-tag-weiss"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/39894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yuveo.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=39894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}