Watch for cancer signs
Skin cancer is one of the easiest cancers to cure if treated early. There are three main types:
© SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA: A slow-growing, malignant tumour. The typical skin lesion is a firm, red, horny, painless nodule, ranging from less than one to several centimetres.
Can take on pearl-like appearance. Commonly seen on ears, lips, nose and legs.
® BASAL CELL CARCINOMA: Tumour begins as small, solid, raised skin lesion and enlarges, developing a central crater
that erodes, crusts and bleeds. Spreading is rare, but local invasion destroys underlying and adjacent tissue. In 90 per cent of cases, the lesion is between the hairline and upper lip. The most common of the skin cancers.
• MALIGNANT MELANOMA: Commonly seen as a brown or black spot with an irregular border, the pigment appearing to radiate beyond that border. It may feel a bit moist and crusted on the surface.
Men are more prone to melanomas of the trunk, women of the legs. Highly invasive if untreated.
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