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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