Medical term meaning.

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  1. Does anyone know what NON keratinizing scc means.  ???
  • 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 

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  • So that’s nothing concerning?

  • 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 

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  • I dint know. Just the stuff you read on internet. I have to stay away. Thank you tho!

  • Please try. There’s all the info your consultant doesn’t tell you right here in these pages. We are tons better than Google. 

    Dani 

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