Skin Cancer

Cancer is a word used to describe a group of diseases. Each has its own

name, its own treatment, and its own chances of being cured. Each is

different from the others in many ways, but every cancer, whatever its called

or whatever part of the body it is located in, is a disease of the body's

cells. The millions of tiny cells that make up the human body are so small

that they can be seen only by looking through a microscope. There are

different kinds of cells, but they all make new cells by dividing into two.

This is how worn-out, old cells are replaced with strong new ones. When a

cell changes and doesn't do the job it should do for the body, it divides into

more cells like itself, then these cells keep dividing into more cells. A

group of these cells is a tumor. There are two kinds of tumors. A benign

tumor is not cancer. The cells of a benign tumor can crowd out healthy cells,

but they cannot spread to other......

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