| Your skin protects your body against heat, light, infection, and injury and also stores water, fat, and vitamin D. Each of these cells can suddenly start to divide abnormally and bacome cancerous in any time. |
| What is skin cancer? |
| +Skin cancer is the most common of all cancers. It is a disease that the cancer (malignant) cells are found in the outer layers of your skin. +The most common sign of the skin cancer is a change on the your skin that won't heal, lump or shiny looking or the change of skin color to red or reddish brown. +There are two types of skin cancer, Malignant melanoma and Non- melanoma |
| Skin cancer can be cause by� +Sunburn and sunlight +Tanning +Heredity +Environment |
| Cancer occurs when... +The abnormal cells in any of the three layers of our skin lose the ability to divide and grow out of control. +The body's natural protections like a certain pads of the immune system can't stop uncontrolled cell division. +These abnormal cells become greater and greater until it expends too much in a large area. |
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