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