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Description of Skin Cancer Types (Part 1)
Squamous cell carcinoma (or squamous cell carcinoma) develops in the middle layers of the epidermis and accounts for 20% of all cases of skin cancer.
Usually occurs in areas that have been exposed to the sun, like the top of the nose, ears, forehead, upper lip and backs of hands.
You can also occur in areas of skin that have been in contact with chemicals that have undergone radiotherapy, or have been burned. In the genital area, appears less frequently.
Usually occurs usually a red bump and drive. Sometimes it may look, scaly, or bleed and develop a scab that never heals. As you have enlarged nodular and sometimes presents a warty surface. In the end, it becomes an open sore and growing into the underlying tissue.
Through the lymph system can extend to any body part, but this happens rarely. It is a tumor with a tendency to grow and be on the same site, once removed. But it tends to spread.
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of nonmelanoma skin cancer. About 75% of all skin cancers are basal cell carcinomas.
Skin Cancer Introduction
What is it?
Skin cancer is a disease caused by the development of cancerous cells in any of the layers of the skin.
There are two types: non-melanoma and melanoma.
The non-melanoma cancer is the most common and is called nonmelanoma because they formed from other skin cells are not accumulating pigment (melanocytes). Within this type are all skin cancers less malignant melanoma is less common and more malignant and explained below.
Skin cancer is most prevalent among white skinned people who have spent much time exposed to sunlight, especially when sun exposure occurred in childhood and there were numerous sunburn. Although it may appear anywhere on the skin, is more common than is presented on the face, neck, hands and arms.
This cancer is one of the most common of all cancers, and diagnosed an estimated two million new cases per year worldwide.
In recent years, the incidence of malignant melanoma has increased dramatically, has multiplied by 3.3 in males and 2.5 in women over the last twenty years in Spain. Despite this, less than 3% of all tumors and early detection campaigns have allowed the mortality is reduced by 30% since the seventies.
You can recognize a change in the appearance of the skin, like a wound that does not heal or a small bump. You may also see a red, rough or scaly skin with a tendency to grow.
Any changes or abnormality of the skin, one must see the doctor. It can extract and analyze a sample (biopsy) to check whether a tumor is malignant or not.
Tips For Beauty Skin
This time we have prepared a guide of tips for beauty skin. Let’s start by mentioning some elements and natural products useful to the body.
You can start by testing a mask based on cocoa is one of the great alternatives we can take, thanks to elements such as potassium, phosphorus, calcium and antioxidants can find lots of benefits. Many spas usually have face masks, body baths and cocoa-based mesotherapy.
Meanwhile, the coffee is very important in cases of treatment for cellulite and is very stimulating to the lymphatic and circulatory system. Similarly, beauty centers use it to create masks to make good components thanks to the peel. Home, the remains of brewed coffee can be used to treat stretch marks go.
If you want to fight wrinkles, a simple mask option has to do with the use of avocados (also called avocado by country). You should only make a paste of avocado with a fork can be achieved, and add a little lemon juice to win a softer consistency, following the same way be spread on the face for 15 minutes daily.
For keloid scars, scars that are thick in areas of a wound but do not match the edge of it, being red or darker. You can resort to treatments like steroid injections, which help to reduce the size of the scar.