basal cell epithelioma

He added that the type of cancer found was a basal cell epithelioma.

Mr. Fitzwater said he understood that the basal cell epithelioma found today was essentially the same as the basal cell carcinomas found in 1985.

Surgeons took two slices off the tip of the President's nose Friday to remove a basal cell epithelioma, which was described as the most curable of all cancers.

The type of cancer found on Mr. Reagan's nose, described by the White House as a basal cell epithelioma, is one of the least threatening and most curable of all cancers.