It's a term to describe epithelium....skin basicallyt
The skin lining your mouth and throat is basically the same as the skin on the your body. It's made the same but your outer layer has to be tough so the cells lose their nucleus and become flat and hard and full of keratin so they are basically dead.
The skin lining your mouth and intestine has to remain pliable and moist. So the cells retain their nuclei, their plump living shape with no hard keratin
It's not a pathological change but purely a descriptive one
SCC is squamous cell carcinoma ....a cancer of those cells lining the mouth which are squamous cells....epithelial cells
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
So that’s nothing concerning
In what way?
It just describes the histological appearance of the cancer.
if you mean does it indicate a poor prognosis then no.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
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Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
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