Other vulval malignancies

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