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