Skin Cancer: Determining the 3 Types

By: Regina Hoover

There are three main types of skin cancers. Melanoma is a skin cancer that begins in moles and can spread too fast through your body and kill you. Moles that have unusual edges and various colours should be extracting to be diagnosed for melanoma. Moles that have smooth circular edges and are of one colour are seldom melanoma cancers.

The second form of skin cancer is called squamous cell cancer. These can occasionally spread through the body and be serious.

The third and most common kind, basal cellular skin cancer, rarely spreads through the body and can be cured just by taking out completely of the lesion. They are called cancers simply because they keep on expanding through everything around them until they are completely removed. Basal cell skin cancers fall apart and feel like marshmallows when they are scraped. Almost all a doctor has to do is to inject an anaesthetic into the lesion, scrape the basal cell cancer until he feels the hard resistance of normal skin. He then burns a part of normal skin around the lesion to assure the removal of the entire cancer.

You can imagine that you have a basal cell skin cancer when you grow a red scaly part on the very surface of a light-exposed area of skin. That is possibly an actinic keratosis that will often be removed just by applying a special cream called imiquimod. However, if you leave the red area in place, it can go much deeper and became a skin cancer. You can suspect that the actinic keratosis has gone much deeper when the surface feels rough like sandpaper. If you let it grow up further, it can turn into an elevated area with a fine pearly line.

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