| If you have been reading newspaper or listening | | | | with cancer on their skin, have: |
| to news regularly over the past few years, you | | | | Basal cell skin cancer: Women developing these |
| should have come across several warnings telling | | | | sores find that a pimple or a scab grows on their |
| us to protect ourselves from skin cancer. Whilst | | | | skin, bleeds or drains, and then scabs again. This |
| there are many who do pay attention to these | | | | cycle is seen to continue repeatedly and has been |
| cautions, a shocking count of women still ignores | | | | found tough to heal completely. |
| them. If you are amongst those women that | | | | Squamous skin cancer: It looks similar to basal |
| ignore these warnings, you are likely to think that | | | | carcinomas. They also appear rough and have |
| it's impossible for you to get affected by skin | | | | scaly patches on the skin, which do not disappear. |
| cancer. Again, you might feel it to be no harm, if | | | | These 2 cancer types usually appear in nose and |
| you miss applying sun tan lotion while moving out. | | | | similar other regions of the skin, which frequently |
| Skin cancer is not a rare phenomenon, as people | | | | receives direct rays from the sun. Skin of your |
| consider it to be. Whilst it's true that staying | | | | nose is very much tender, and can be at high risk |
| unprotected in the sun for short duration seldom | | | | for non-melanoma cancer. Both basal cell and |
| leads to cancer, you might still face its wrath. | | | | squamous skin cancer are treatable, if you choose |
| Most women get affected with skin cancer after | | | | to remove them surgically. |
| exposing themselves to the sun for a long period | | | | Usually, women develop non-melanoma cancers |
| of time. As a matter of fact, almost 75% of | | | | on their nose or face. However, sometimes |
| women diagnosed with it every year have a | | | | melanoma occurs on their face too. Such cancer |
| history of constant sun exposure. Although cancer | | | | types spread rapidly and can be deadly, if it stays |
| might occur after severe sunburns, it usually | | | | undetected and untreated in its initial stages. |
| results for many years in the sun. | | | | Sometimes, it's difficult to differentiate the two |
| Do you stay long in an open environment for long | | | | types. This is the reason why you should see a |
| periods and get frequently bathed by sun without | | | | doctor, whenever you notice something wrong |
| having any protection on your skin? If you do, | | | | with your skin. |
| then are you at high risk for skin cancer? Again, is | | | | If you have a belief that you are at high risks of |
| there any spot on your skin, which has been | | | | skin cancer, you should immediately schedule |
| bothering you for long? Can it be cancerous? If | | | | appointments with your doctor. Skin cancers can |
| you even have a feeling that the spot can be | | | | be successfully treated, if they are caught in their |
| cancerous, you should immediately schedule a visit | | | | initial stages. |
| with your doctor! | | | | Your life might totally depend on the early |
| Definite diagnosis can only be made once a biopsy | | | | detection & diagnosis of a bothersome sore |
| is performed. | | | | on the skin. So don't even think about delaying! |
| Over 99 percent of women, who are diagnosed | | | | |