Skin Cancer Research Paper

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Human infected with many diseases that are difficult to overcome and these diseases is cancer. Cancer is a human body cells grow abnormally and kills the cell manufacturing to places in the body. The change of the composition and multiply and spread in the body. In this paper we will address to the type of cancer is skin cancer, skin cancer is a common cases, especially after age, where the risk rose to infection types of skin cancer in the elderly. The skin cancer affects men more than women. Statistics estimate that skin cancer affects about thirty people out of a hundred thousand people. And the spread of skin cancer in whites more heavily than others, especially in the West. We will learn in this search for the definition of skin cancer, …show more content…
He is like the rest of cancerous tumors skin cancer is a disease of the cells. Cells are combinations infinitesimal interference in the formation of all members of the body, such as skin, heart, bones Despite the fact that various members of cells different in structure but they multiply by division, and when the cell division irregularly and without body control consists abnormal growth and consists of the tumor, which can be either benign or and malignant cancer called malignant ones. Adenoma to Anther which can usually be removed college surgery while the malignancy or cancer invades adjacent normal tissue and spread to other parts of the body is called metastases, and even if you removed the primary tumor surgically, the disease recover again because these malignant cells spread …show more content…
Melanoma behaves differently to basal cell and squamous cell cancers. It can grow quickly and needs to be treated early.
There are some other rare types of skin cancer
• Merkel cell carcinoma
• Kaposi’s sarcoma
• Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma of the skin
• sarcoma
Bowen’s disease:
Bowen’s disease is sometimes called squamous cell carcinoma in-situ. It’s caused by the abnormal growth of cells in the outer layer of the skin. These cells don’t spread into the deeper layers of the skin. If left no treated, Bowen’s disease may develop into squamous cell carcinoma.(Edyta.S,2011)

Causes and risk factors

Sun exposure
Ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun is the main environmental cause of most skin cancers. UV light damages the DNA (genetic material) in our skin cells and can cause skin cancer.
Over exposure to the sun or sunburn in childhood are important risk factors in developing basal cell cancers.
Skin cancer is more common than it used to be. This is because people are living longer so their lifetime sun exposure is greater. Sun exposure over a lifetime is more important in developing squamous cell

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