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What are the different types of skin cancers that exist?
Skin cancers can be either benign or malignant and there appear to be a variety of them all with different prognoses.
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There are a several types of skin cancers depending on the type of skin cell from which they arise. But There are three major types of skin cancer, which includes basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Melanoma is the most serious of these skin cancers.
*Basal cell carcinoma:
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common of the skin cancers. It could be easily treated and they hardly spread, unlike the other two that can spread if not detected early.
*Squamous cell carcinoma:
Squamous cell carcinoma is also easily treated, only if detected early, but it can also spread if not treated earlier.
*Melanoma:
Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. It is also the skin cancer that caused many people their lives. Melanoma can develop from anywhere on the body.
Other skin cancers are:
• Kaposi sarcoma
• Merkel cell carcinoma
• Sebaceous gland carcinoma
• actinic keratosis
http://www.trihealth.com/ser/cancer/images/Basal_cell_carcinoma.jpg
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/pictures22/dermnet/21_squamous_cell_carcinoma_322.jpg
http://www.worldwidewounds.com/2002/march/Naylor/images/Fig-1-Melanoma-Back.jpg
*Basal cell carcinoma:
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common of the skin cancers. It could be easily treated and they hardly spread, unlike the other two that can spread if not detected early.
*Squamous cell carcinoma:
Squamous cell carcinoma is also easily treated, only if detected early, but it can also spread if not treated earlier.
*Melanoma:
Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. It is also the skin cancer that caused many people their lives. Melanoma can develop from anywhere on the body.
Other skin cancers are:
• Kaposi sarcoma
• Merkel cell carcinoma
• Sebaceous gland carcinoma
• actinic keratosis
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