Close-up of a bowenoid keratosis on the scalp in an 88 year old male patient. A bowenoid keratosis is a precancerous lesion, one step on from a harmle

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Close-up of a bowenoid keratosis on the scalp in an 88 year old male patient. A bowenoid keratosis is a precancerous lesion, one step on from a harmless solar keratosis caused by overexposure to sunlight, on the way to squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer).

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Photo credit: © DR P. MARAZZI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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