Skin Cancer

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Across
  1. 2. Growths on your skin that range in color from your natural skin tone to brown or black.
  2. 4. To identify a disease from the symptoms.
  3. 6. They produce melanin, a brown pigment that gives your skin its colorand protects against the sun’s UV rays.
  4. 7. Cancer that forms in your basal cells in the lower part of your epidermis. (the outside layer of our skin)
  5. 8. Red, painful, damaged skin from being out in the sun for too long.
  6. 9. Precancerous skin growths that are rough, scaly, dark pink-to-brown patches.
  7. 10. Medicine or pills used for treatment.
  8. 13. New growth or change towards a condition or disease.
  9. 16. Skin Small flat spots that are usually found on sun-exposed areas of yor body.
  10. 17. To keep something from happening.
  11. 18. Medical doctors who specialize in diagnosing and treating diseases of the skin, hair, nails and mucus membrane.
  12. 19. A form of energy that the sun produces and provides Vitamin D to your body.
  13. 20. A procedure healthcare providers use to diagnose skin conditions.
Down
  1. 1. Medical care given for an illness.
  2. 3. A disease that involves the growth of abnormal cells in your skin tissues.
  3. 5. Cancer that forms in your squamous cells in the outside layer of your skin.
  4. 11. When a dermatologist uses liquid nitrogen to freeze skin cancer, and the dead cells slough off after treatment.
  5. 12. When a dermatologist uses medication to kill cancer cells. Anticancer medications can be applied directly on the skin.
  6. 14. Areas of your skin that are different from the skin around them
  7. 15. Cancer that forms in your melanocytes cells.