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Skin Cancer Facts and Treatment

Skin Cancer information including the head, neck or shoulders. Sometimes
symptoms, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, small blood vessels can be seen within
treatment, causes the tumor. Crusting and bleeding in the
Skin cancer is a malignant growth on center of the tumor frequently develops.
the skin which can have many causes. Skin It is often mistaken for a sore that does
cancer generally develops in the not heal. * Squamous cell carcinoma is
epidermis (the outermost layer of skin), commonly a red, scaling, thickened patch
so a tumor is usually clearly visible. on sun-exposed skin. Ulceration and
This makes most skin cancers detectable bleeding may occur. When SCC is not
in the early stages. There are three treated, it may develop into a large
common types of skin cancer, each of mass.Skin Cancer TreatmentMost skin
which is named after the type of skin cancers can be treated by removal of the
cell from which it arises. The two most lesion, making sure that the edges
common types are basal cell cancer and (margins) are free of the tumor cells.
squamous cell cancer. It accounts for These excisions provide the best cure for
more than 75 percent of all skin cancers. both early and high-risk disease.For
Squamous cell carcinomas arise from the low-risk disease, radiation therapy and
upper levels of the epidermis, usually on cryotherapy (freezing the cancer off) can
places that have been exposed to the sun. provide adequate control of the disease;
Squamous cell carcinoma also can spread both, however, have lower overall cure
internally. They account for about 20 rates than surgery.Most skin cancers are
percent of skin cancers in the United removed surgically, by a plastic surgeon
States.Melanoma is generally the most or a dermatologist. If the cancer is
serious form of skin cancer because it small, the procedure can be done quickly
tends to spread (metastasize) throughout and easily, in an outpatient facility or
the body quickly.Signs and symptomsThere the physician's office, using local
are a variety of different skin cancer anesthesia. The procedure may be a simple
symptoms. These include crabs or changes excision, which usually leaves a thin,
in the skin that do not heal, ulcers in barely visible scar. Or curettage and
the skin, discoloration, and changes in desiccation may be performed. In this
existing moles. * Basal cell carcinoma procedure the cancer is scraped out with
usually looks like a raised, smooth, an electric current to control bleeding
pearly bump on the sun-exposed skin of and kill any remaining cancer cells.




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