Bowens Disease

 

John Templeton Bowen (1857–1940)

 An American dermatologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

 

 

 

 

 

Bowen Disease

 

In 1912, Bowen published his landmark paper describing a peculiar, persistent, scaly erythematous skin patch that behaved clinically like a precancerous lesion but microscopically resembled carcinoma restricted to the epidermis.

 

 

“A type of intraepithelial carcinoma”

 

Establishment of Bowen’s disease as a true SCC precursor, with a small but real risk of progression to invasive SCC (3–5%).

 

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