Skin cancer

2. Irregular shape.
5. Blurry or irregularly shaped edges.
6. Your oncologist gives you medications to train your immune system to kill cancer cells.
8. which forms in your basal cells in the lower part of your epidermis (the outside layer of your skin).
9. Your dermatologist or oncologist uses medications to kill cancer cells.
10. produce melanin, a brown pigment that gives your skin its color and protects against some of the sun’s damaging UV rays.
11. the ability to make things move or change
12. which forms in your squamous cells in the outside layer of your skin.
13. to form a mental picture of something that cannot be seen
16. Enlarging, changing in shape, color, or size.
17. Your dermatologist removes only diseased tissue, saving as much surrounding normal tissue as possible.
18. something that carries energy from one place to another
19. Your dermatologist uses liquid nitrogen to freeze skin cancer. The dead cells slough off after treatment.
20. the out-of-control growth of abnormal cells in the epidermis, the outermost skin layer, caused by unrepaired DNA damage that triggers mutations.

1. Larger than a pencil eraser
3. Your dermatologist uses an instrument with a sharp, looped edge to remove cancer cells as it scrapes across the tumor.
4. which forms in cells called melanocytes.
7. Your radiation oncologist uses radiation (strong beams of energy) to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing and dividing.
14. to take in
15. Your dermatologist coats your skin with medication, which they activate with a blue or red fluorescent light. This therapy destroys precancerous cells while leaving normal cells alone.