What Are Your Risk Factors?

     There are three main types of skin cancer. These are malignant melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma. While melanoma is the most life-threatening of the three, it is also the most

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.

Although there are several types of skin cancer, the most aggressive form is melanoma. This cancer of the skin involves mass replication of the pigment producing melanocyte cells, which are located in the epidermis, below the basal layer. There are several factors involved with the onset of melanoma including, exposure to ultraviolet rays, genetic predisposition, numerous nevi (moles), immunosuppression, and environmental exposure to carcinogens.

United States. Skin cancer has been the most popular form of cancer that is growing especially since the invention of tanning beds. Sun exposure and radiation exposure increase the risk of skin cancer. The definition of cancer is abnormal cell growth or behavior. Studies have shown that sun and radiation exposure damage the cells in your body. Richard Wagman is the author of this article; he is a doctor who specializes in internal medicine. The publication is from The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia, which is a book written by M.D. Richard

Indoor tanning exposes users to two types of UV rays, UVA and UVB. UVA rays are suspected to be linked to the development of melanoma and other skin cancers. Worldwide, there are more skin cancer cases due to indoor tanning than there are lung cancer cases due to smoking. Tanning causes damage to the DNA in our skin cells, which leads to abnormal growth that could be benign or malignant. Tanning also weakens our immune system which compromises our body's capability of fighting against malignancies and cancer cells. There are two types of skin cancer that can be caused by tanning- basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas. These types are treatable with early detection. Development of melanoma can be fatal."In the US alone, 419,254 cases of skin cancer can be attributed to indoor tanning. Out of this number, 6,199 are melanoma cases" (Skin Cancer Foundation). It has been found that younger tanners are at higher risk of developing skin cancers from tanning, but with the high levels of UV exposure, any tanner should take

One of them is called Melanoma which is the most deadly and dangerous one.This type of cancer will grow quickly so if you see any thing odd about your moles or freckles you need to go get it checked out immediately because its very fatal.

There are different types of skin cell cancer. Bell cell carcinoma (BCC) involves slow growing, malignant epidermal tumors that develop from hair follicles. These tumor infiltrate surrounding tissues and invasively destroy vulnerable areas, such as skin that is chronically exposed to the sun. The sun-exposed areas of the neck and head are at highest risk, where small white or translucent lesions will likely appear. Squamous cell carcinoma is a cancer that is caused by too much UV exposure or from excessive use of sunbeds. It is technically caused by uncontrolled growth of abnormal squamous cells and medically treated through safe dermatology

It is believed that the amount of exposure of the skin to the sun before the age of 20 is actually the determining risk factor for melanoma. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common skin cancer and tends to only spread locally. Squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common skin cancer, and it can spread to other parts of the body, although not as commonly as melanoma. The risk of getting basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma is determined by a person 's lifetime exposure to UV radiation and the person 's pigment protection.

The second most common skin cancer happens to be squamous cell carcinoma. This skin cancer is a rough surfaced skin colored lesion and it can most likely cause death in about 10 percent of patients that are affected with this disease. Last but not least, the most serious skin cancer is melanoma, which often looks like a dark, changing, bleeding skin spot. Melanoma is fatal in as many as 35 percent of patients who are diagnosed with this form of skin cancer. The skin cancer that interested me the most was basal cell carcinoma because I wanted to figure out why it was the most common skin cancer.

Squamous Cell Carcinoma – Accounts for 20% of non-melanoma cancers and causes death in about 10% of affected patients.

Most parents remembered hearing about the importance of protecting their children from the sun, yet children are still playing in the sun without sunscreen or protective clothing. Many people these days are not taking skin cancer seriously after knowing its significance. Skin cancer has been a growing problem in the United States and millions of people have suffered from it every year. The three most common skin cancers are Melanoma, Basal cell, and Squamous cell, which can cause bumps, sores, growths, etc. Skin cancer is a deadly disease with many causes, but the advantage is that it can be prevented.

Basal cell carcinoma is the least malignant and most common type of skin cancer that accounts nearly 80% of its cases (Marieb & Hoehn, 2007). This type of cancer begins in the basal cell layer of the skin invading the dermis and hypodermis. The cancer lesion occurs due to the exposure of the sun and occurs in the human body such as the face. Our face is the most common place to find this type of skin cancer. When developed it appears as a shiny, dome-shaped nodules that later develops a central ulcer with a pearly, beaded edge (Marieb & Hoehn, 2007). Majority of the people who develop this kind of cancer are people with fair light skin, such as Caucasians. Luckily Basal Cell cancer is slow growing and metastasis seldom occurs before it is noticed.

The skin protects against heat, sunlight, injury, and infection, it also helps control body temperature and stores water and fat. Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. It usually forms in skin that has been exposed to sunlight, but can occur anywhere on the body. Skin has several layers. Skin cancer begins in the epidermis (outer layer), which is made up of squamous cells, basal cells, and melanocytes. There are several different types of skin cancer. Squamous cell and basal cell skin cancers are sometimes called nonmelanoma skin cancers. Nonmelanoma skin cancer usually responds to treatment and rarely spreads to other parts of the body. Melanoma is more aggressive than most other types of skin cancer. If it isn’t diagnosed early,

A. Do you know that skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States; two million people are diagnosed annually.

Patients who suffer from it often complain of persistent severe dryness and cracking of the lips, resulting in extreme pain in addition to looking bad. This damage done by sun exposure does not stop at the skin and eyes, even though the suns damaging UV rays hit only the outside of our bodies, the inside of our bodies can be affected by the sun too. Risk estimations have been performed by the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment. It is estimated that UV doses relevant to outdoor exposure can ruin proper function of the body’s immune system. This will affect the bodied natural resistance to infectious agents, such as bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi. It sounds like our mothers were wrong when they told us that we needed to go outside and get some sun.