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ORPHA:494451

Vulvar basal cell carcinoma

high confidenceSubtype of disorder

Also known as: Basal cell carcinoma of vulva

Publications

118

50.5th percentile

Trials

0

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

494

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

A rare vulvar carcinoma characterized by a slowly growing ulcer or nodule which is histologically composed of demarcated nests of palisaded basal cells originating at the epidermal-dermal junction. Occasionally, the tumor may be extensively pigmented. Patients most commonly present with pruritus. The lesion is usually treated by local excision, although groin metastases have been reported.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (6)

basal cell carcinoma of the vulva · basal cell carcinoma of vulva · mammalian vulva skin basal cell carcinoma · skin basal cell carcinoma of mammalian vulva · vulvar basal cell cancer · vulvar basal cell carcinoma

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

No specific-condition interventional trial, but broader-category trials exist — discuss eligibility with a clinician.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    118 matched papers (42 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPartial

    None under the specific name; 240 for broader category basal cell carcinoma

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

118

118 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

118 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

42 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 50.5th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 118 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

494

Distinct author names in 118 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.

  1. 01
    De Giorgi V4 papers · 2023

    Department of Dermatology, University of Florence, Via degli Alfani, 37, Firenze-50121, Florence, Italy. vdegi@tin.it

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Li H3 papers · 2026

    Discipline of Chinese Medicine, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, PO Box 71, Bundoora, VIC, 3083, Australia.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Li X3 papers · 2026

    The Affiliated Kangning Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Research Center for Mental Health, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Hoffman MS2 papers · 1994

    H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Huang Y2 papers · 2026

    Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Department of Gynecological Oncology, Guangzhou, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Liu X2 papers · 2021

    The Second Clinical Medical College, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Massi D2 papers · 2007
    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    McGibbon DH2 papers · 1996
    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Ruffolo EH2 papers · 1994
    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Sharma P2 papers · 2021

    Department of Pathology, Creighton University, Omaha, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

0

interventional trials for this specific condition

No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present). 240 trials are registered for basal cell carcinoma, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

No matched interventional trials. This is true for 73% of diseases in the trials denominator (5114 of 7003). Here are the researchers publishing on it.

high confidence · 36.5th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.

240 interventional trials matched basal cell carcinoma, the broader category — listed below. Those studies are not counted in the condition-specific total.

Broader category: basal cell carcinoma

240

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Vulvar basal cell carcinoma" OR "Basal cell carcinoma of vulva" OR "Basal cell carcinoma of the vulva" OR "mammalian vulva skin basal cell carcinoma" OR "skin basal cell carcinoma of mammalian vulva" OR "skin basal cell carcinoma of the mammalian vulva" OR "vulvar basal cell cancer"

Run this search on Europe PMC

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Vulvar basal cell carcinoma" OR "Basal cell carcinoma of vulva" OR "Basal cell carcinoma of the vulva" OR "mammalian vulva skin basal cell carcinoma" OR "skin basal cell carcinoma of mammalian vulva" OR "skin basal cell carcinoma of the mammalian vulva" OR "vulvar basal cell cancer"

Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"basal cell carcinoma"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T17:32:18.282Z