On the death certificate, there is just one word I can't read. The poor man died of lower lip cancer which spread to his lymph glands and then a heart attack.
It's a word that seems to begin with an E and ends with 'lioma'?
It looks a bit like 'Essuthlioma of Lip (Lower). Any ideas, please?
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Thread: Lip cancer terminology query
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14-01-2016, 2:26 PM #1
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Lip cancer terminology query
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14-01-2016, 3:35 PM #2
I've changed your title a little to show it's relevance.
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14-01-2016, 5:01 PM #3
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Are you sure that it isn't Carcinoma?
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14-01-2016, 6:32 PM #4
Hi Jesse
I've recently got a Death Certificate where one of the causes of death is "epitheliosis of lip", so I'd go for epithelioma. There's plenty of examples n the 'net.Peter Nicholl
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15-01-2016, 8:19 AM #5
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I'd go for epithelioma
a tumour of epithelium, the covering of internal and external surfaces of the body: a former name for carcinoma.
Jessie - have a look at the online reference sources available through your library service. Oxford Reference includes medical dictionaries, not to mention local and family history reference books.
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15-01-2016, 11:59 AM #6
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Thank you all so much for that (including Lesley's change of title)! I like to donate (or rather, transcribe) any certificate I get to the Cornish OPC so I needed to get it right!
Peter, I'll check out your Oxford Reference suggestion. I've saved lots of Favourites about old medical terms, etc. but no joy so I googled Lip Cancer to try to find out the correct term. I spent (wasted?) hours reading up on it but the images were very disturbing so I gave up!
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