Skin Cancer

             Skin cancer is a disease in which cancer, or malignant, cells
             are found in the outer layers of your skin. Your skin protects your
             body against heat, light, infection, and injury. It also stores water,
             fat, and vitamin D. Your skin consists of an outer layer called the
             epidermis, and an inner layer called the dermis.
             The healthiness of your skin depends on three key elements:
             heredity, sunburn/sunlight, and environment, which includes things
             like elevation, latitude, and cloud cover. Unfortunately, the
             environment component is deteriorating, because the level of UV
             light is higher than it was 100 years ago due to a reduction of the
             ozone layer. If they are all against your favor, then you will be
             extremely susceptible to skin cancer.
             There are four main types of skin cancer, which are malignant
             melanoma, actinic keratosis, basal cell, and squamos cell. Some
             less common ones are cutaneous T-cell lymphoma(cancer of lymph
             system), Kaposi's sarcoma, and cancers that begin in other parts of
             the body also may spread to the skin, or metastasize. These can
             occur anywhere on the body(in terms of skin), but most common in
             places most exposed to sunlight like your face, neck, hands, and
             arms. AIDS, which disables your immune system, makes skin cancer
             Skin cancers are easily detected clinically and are often cured
             by excisional biopsy. When neglected, they may be very deforming
             and may cause death. Melanoma, the rarest form of skin cancer, is
             responsible for about 75% of all deaths from skin cancer. In fact, 1
             out of 7 Americans are diagnosed each year with some form of the
             disease. That's over one million. In 2000, about 47,700 individuals
             were predicted to develop melanoma and nearly 7,700 of those to
             die. Incidence increased 126% between 1973 and 1995, which is a
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