squamous cell carcinoma

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   the most common form of skin cancer

   Synonymscancroid

   Broaderskin cancer

Questions about squamous cell carcinoma

What does squamous cell carcinoma mean?

squamous cell carcinoma means "the most common form of skin cancer".

What is another word for squamous cell carcinoma?

Close synonyms include cancroid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is squamous cell carcinoma a common word?

squamous cell carcinoma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.