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- 1. A cream or lotion that protects you from the sun.
- 8. An operation in which an organ or tissue is transplanted.
- 13. Liquid nitrogen to freeze skin cancer, the dead cells slough off after treatment
- 14. Type of cancer that forms in cells that called melanocytes. The most serious skin cancer since it can spread to other areas of your body.
- 15. therapy Radiation to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing and dividing.
- 16. surgery Dermatologist removes the tumor and some surrounding healthy skin to be sure all the cancer is gone.
- 19. a disease that involves the growth of abnormal cells in your skin tissues.
- 20. A medication that is use to kill cancer cells, if cancer has spread to others parts of the body
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- 2. and electrodesiccation Dermatologist uses an instrument with a sharp, looped edge to remove cancer cells as it scrapes across the tumor. Then, they use an electric needle to destroy any remaining cancer cells.
- 3. A medication to train yout immune system to kill cancer cells.
- 4. Type of cancer that forms in your basal cells in the lower part of your epidermis (the outside layer of your skin).
- 5. Metastatic cancer occurs when cancer cells break off from the original tumor, enter your bloodstream or lymph system and spread to other areas of your body.
- 6. Surgery Dermatologist removes only diseased tissue, saving as much surrounding normal tissue as possible.
- 7. Type of cancer that forms in your squamous cells in the outside layer of your skin.
- 9. therapy Medication that activate with blue or red fluorescent, destroy precancerous cells while leaving normal cells alone.
- 10. Light from the sun
- 11. Cells that don’t spread or cause harm Basal cell
- 12. Brown pigments that gives you skin its color and protects against some of the sun’s damaging UV rays
- 17. To relieve a person of the symptoms of a disease or condition.
- 18. A burn from the sun that can be first, second, and third degree burn in your skin
