Saree cancer: A diagnosis!
Saree cancer is a type of skin cancer that occurs along the waistline of Indian women wearing the traditional costume of ′saree′. The incidence of malignancy in scar tissues is 0.1-2.5%. Highly hypopigmented and thickened scars are more likely to progress into malignant lesions. Khanolkar and Suryab...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Archives of Medicine and Health Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.amhsjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2321-4848;year=2015;volume=3;issue=1;spage=121;epage=123;aulast=Nirhale |
| Summary: | Saree cancer is a type of skin cancer that occurs along the waistline of Indian women wearing the traditional costume of ′saree′. The incidence of malignancy in scar tissues is 0.1-2.5%. Highly hypopigmented and thickened scars are more likely to progress into malignant lesions. Khanolkar and Suryabai described a new type of skin cancer - ′dhoti cancer′ in 1945. Persistent and long term use results in chronic friction/irritation in the region of waist which in term leads to waist-dermatosis. |
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| ISSN: | 2321-4848 |