Description: Most skin growths are not cancerous, but they should all be closely watched, so that you are aware of changes that could be signs of cancer developing.
How Do I Know If My Skin Growths Are Cancer?
How Do I Tell the Difference Between Harmless and Harmful Skin Growths?
Inset: Moles can darken harmlessly during puberty and pregnancy.
Inset: Keloids are excessive scar tissue growths over healed wounds.
Captions:
Layers of skin
A normal wart
Seborrheic Keratosis
Skin tags
Cherry Angioma
Tea Tree Oil
Normal mole
Melanoma
Lentigines
Dermatofibroma
ABCDE Chart
Cutaneous horn
Plantar Warts
Actinic Keratoses
Your skin is the largest organ your body has. It’s made up of three layers that are designed to protect the rest of your body from harmful external conditions. Skin is on guard 24/7/365 keeping weather, chemicals, pollution, and wounds from destroying your insides. Your skin also has to cope with internal toxins such as those expelled through your pores when you sweat. It also warns you when something is going wrong on the inside. Conditions like rashes, hives, itching, or redness is your skin’s way of warning you that there’s a problem that needs your attention. Skin growths can be another warning. …show more content…
You may be born with them or develop them later in life. Most of them are an accumulation of skin cells. Some are flat and some protrude from the skin. Sometimes they disappear on their own.
Benign skin growths have many causes, some of them as yet unknown. The known causes
How Do I Know If My Skin Growths Are Cancer?
How Do I Tell the Difference Between Harmless and Harmful Skin Growths?
Inset: Moles can darken harmlessly during puberty and pregnancy.
Inset: Keloids are excessive scar tissue growths over healed wounds.
Captions:
Layers of skin
A normal wart
Seborrheic Keratosis
Skin tags
Cherry Angioma
Tea Tree Oil
Normal mole
Melanoma
Lentigines
Dermatofibroma
ABCDE Chart
Cutaneous horn
Plantar Warts
Actinic Keratoses
Your skin is the largest organ your body has. It’s made up of three layers that are designed to protect the rest of your body from harmful external conditions. Skin is on guard 24/7/365 keeping weather, chemicals, pollution, and wounds from destroying your insides. Your skin also has to cope with internal toxins such as those expelled through your pores when you sweat. It also warns you when something is going wrong on the inside. Conditions like rashes, hives, itching, or redness is your skin’s way of warning you that there’s a problem that needs your attention. Skin growths can be another warning. …show more content…
You may be born with them or develop them later in life. Most of them are an accumulation of skin cells. Some are flat and some protrude from the skin. Sometimes they disappear on their own.
Benign skin growths have many causes, some of them as yet unknown. The known causes