other vulval malignancies
Last reviewed 01/2018
Malignancies other than invasive squamous cell carcinoma occur rarely in the vulva but may include:
- malignant melanoma - the second most common type of vulvar cancer; may arise de novo or from a pre-existing junctional or compound naevus. Predominantly affect white women after the menopause, usually involving the labia minora or clitoris
- intra-epithelial carcinoma:
- squamous cell carcinoma in situ - Bowen's disease
- Paget's disease of the vulva
- basal-cell carcinoma
- Bartholin's gland carcinoma - adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma; rarely, transitional cell carcinoma
- vulval sarcoma