PREVIOUS SKIN CANCER

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Notes:
Derived from PATIENT DIAGNOSIS. This will be the ICD-10 coding of a previous diagnosis of a skin cancer with one of the following codes:

Basal Cell Carcinoma or Squamous Cell Carcinoma (please note that anything which applies to Squamous Cell Carcinoma also applies to atypical fibroxanthoma, Merkel cell tumour and all epidermal cell derived invasive malignancies except basal cell carcinoma).

C44.0Skin of lip
C44.1Skin of eyelid including canthus
C44.2Skin of ear and external auricular canal
C44.3Skin of other and unspecified parts of face
C44.4Skin of scalp and neck
C44.5Skin of trunk
C44.6Skin of upper limb, including shoulder
C44.7Skin of lower limb including hip
C44.8Overlapping lesion of skin
C44.9Malignant neoplasm of skin, unspecified
  
For Malignant Melanoma 
C43.0Malignant melanoma of lip
C43.1Malignant melanoma of eyelid including canthus
C43.2Malignant melanoma of ear and external auricular canal
C43.3Malignant melanoma of other and unspecified parts of face
C43.4Malignant melanoma of scalp and neck
C43.5Malignant melanoma of trunk
C43.6Malignant melanoma of upper limb, including shoulder
C43.7Malignant melanoma of lower limb including hip
C43.8Overlapping malignant melanoma of skin
C43.9Malignant melanoma of skin, unspecified
D03.0Melanoma in situ of lip
D03.1Melanoma in situ of eyelid including canthus
D03.2Melanoma in situ of ear and external auricular canal
D03.3Melanoma in situ of other and unspecified parts of face
D03.4Melanoma in situ of scalp and neck
D03.5Melanoma in situ of trunk
D03.6Melanoma in situ of upper limb, including shoulder
D03.7Melanoma in situ of lower limb including hip
D03.8Melanoma in situ of other sites
D03.9Melanoma in situ unspecified
  
For cutaneous lymphomas 
C84.0Mycosis fungoides
C84.1Sézary disease
C84.2T-zone lymphoma
C84.3Lymphoepitheliod lymphoma
C84.4Peripheral T-cell lymphoma
C84.5Other and unspecified T-cell lymphomas
C85.1B-cell lymphoma, unspecified
  
For Kaposi's sarcoma 
C46.0Kaposi's sarcoma of skin
C46.1Kaposi's sarcoma of soft tissue
C46.2Kaposi's sarcoma of palate
C46.3Kaposi's sarcoma of lymph nodes
C46.7Kaposi's sarcoma of other sites
C46.8Kaposi's sarcoma of other organs
C46.9Kaposi's sarcoma, unspecified
 

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pluralPREVIOUS SKIN CANCERS