Skin Cancer Teaching Plan

Can you imagine a relative having to hear that they have skin cancer? Some patients have no knowledge of why or how they have contracted it. Why would a healthy human be diagnosed with cancer? Beauty products can cause horrible reactions when toxins are used. Cosmetic products are one of the causes of our skin cancer epidemic. People should know how to protect themselves, the stages of skin cancer, and how to detect skin cancer.

Skin cancer is a disease that can affect any one. Skin cancer includes many types that can be classified as severe or superficial. Consequently, treatement of skin cancer depends on the degree of severity a person has. In the following paper, we will shed lights on the types of skin cancer and its causes. Finally, we will investigate how to treat the different types of cancer and how to avoid it.

What nutrients are and how they affect our body, malnutrition, deficiency etc. The guidelines which determine nutritional health including dietary reference values (DRV), what a balanced diet is and how to maintain this, what BMI is and how to calculate it, the eat well plate, I will explain possible influences on dietary intake, assess how these influences may affect the nutritional health of individuals and I will also make realistic recommendations for minimising the impact of negative influences on individuals in a specific health and social care setting.

EXCESSIVE SUN EXPOSURE AND SKIN CANCER IN AUSTRALIA Genet Degfaw Student ID No. 4559316 20 October 2017 Table of content 1. Introduction------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 2. Background-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3-4 2.1 The importance of sunscreen in preventing skin cancer------------------------------------3 2.2 The Australian population at greater risk of skin cancer------------------------------------4 3.

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On the Mayo Clinic website, there is a very informative section on skin cancer. The main point is that skin cancer is the abnormal growth of skin cells, which develops on skin exposed to sun. They discus symptoms, causes, risk factors, how to prepare for an appointment, tests and diagnosis, and treatments. Overall, the website covers the details of skin cancer from start to end.

Skin cancer is a very real and common health problem for Australians, with 2 in 3 developing this deadly disease by the age of 70 (Lynch, 2006). “Due to the Australian climate and lifestyle, as well as a predominantly fair skinned population, skin cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer in Australia,” (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2000). For the most effective prevention against skin cancer, it is recommended that a combination of sun safety measures are met; slip, slop, slap, seek, slide (Slip on sun protective clothing, slop on water resistant SPF30+ sunscreen, slap on a hat, seek shade, slide on sunglasses), (Preventing Skin Cancer, 2017). By simply reducing recreational sun exposure, the risk of developing melanoma –

While tanning beds and extreme use/exposure to UV rays are ways to get skin cancer, there are also various other ways to get it. Many don’t know that genetics and traits can actually play a huge role in developing this dangerous disease. They also don’t know that skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S. today. According to the Skin Cancer Foundation more people over the last 300 years have had skin cancer than all of the other cancers combined. They say that one in five people develop skin cancer throughout their lifetime; some surviving, some moribund.

There are ways to treat skin cancer, in fact a lot of ways. There are about 7 ways. It all depends on where the skin cancer is at, like on your face, neck, scalp, nose, and even lips. There is different ways to treat it, it depends on where you have it at. If you leave this untreated it can they will eventually penetrate the underlying tissues and can become disfiguring. There are a lot of different surgeries you can do for this. First one is Mohs Micrographic Surgery. What that does is they use a scalpel and they remove the visible tumor. While the patient waits the layer they took of is sectioned, frozen, stained and mapped in detail, then checked under a microscope. If the cancer is still present then they do the same thing again. Next, is the

Levit, E. K., Kagen, M. H., Scher, R. K., Grossman, M., & Altman, E. (2000). The ABC rule for clinical detection of subungual melanoma. Journal of The American Academy of Dermatology, 42(2), 269-274. Retrieved 12 29, 2017, from

Specific Purpose: After listening to my speech the audience will know what skin cancer is, what the three most common forms are, what the risk factors are, and some preventative measures that can be taken to lessen the risk.

Thesis: Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States but is highly curable if detected early and treated properly.

AK severs as a marker for an increase in nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC), even in the absence of any specific lesion progression.The risk for progression of AK to invasive SCC with the potential for metastasis provides the rationale for treatment(2) (Ibrahim and Brown, 2009). Early diagnosis should be done for treatment of patients with skin cancer. Anticancer drugs administered orally or by the intravenous route are associated with serious side effects when given systemically. Topical dosage forms deliver most of the drug locally with fewer side effects compared with other routes of administration.

Nothing is more important than following a healthy diet. Eating the wrong foods or not eating enough of the right ones can deprive the body of the essential nutrients it needs to keep working at full power. Maintaining a healthy diet can help boost the immune system, improve