[Skin cancer in general practice]

33 cancer-like skin changes were observed during a four year period from April 1985 to April 1989: 14 basaliomas, 8 squamous carcinomas, 1 mixed type, 2 morbus Bowen, 2 cornua cutanea with malignant change, 1 parapsoriasis en plaques, 3 keratosis, 1 malignant melanoma and 1 lentigo malignant melanoma. The skin changes were biopsied with a biopsy punch (3, 4, 6 mm diameter) or excised with safety-distance, the histological investigations were done at the Pathological Institute of the University of Münster, radiation therapy until 1987 at the Urban Hospital Bielefeld and since 1988 at the Urban Hospital Gütersloh.