Skin Cancer

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  1. 4. A cream or lotion that protects you from the sun.
  2. 7. Liquid nitrogen to freeze skin cancer, the dead cells slough off after treatment
  3. 9. 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.
  4. 10. A pigmented spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body.
  5. 12. An operation in which an organ or tissue is transplanted.
  6. 16. Light from the sun
  7. 17. Radiation to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing and dividing.
  8. 20. Type of cancer that forms in your basal cells in the lower part of your epidermis (the outside layer of your skin).
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  1. 1. Type of cancer that forms in your squamous cells in the outside layer of your skin.
  2. 2. A medication to train your immune system to kill cancer cells.
  3. 3. Medication that activate with blue or red fluorescent, destroy precancerous cells while leaving normal cells alone.
  4. 5. Dermatologist removes the tumor and some surrounding healthy skin to be sure all the cancer is gone.
  5. 6. Dermatologist removes only diseased tissue, saving as much surrounding normal tissue as possible.
  6. 8. 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.
  7. 11. A medication that is use to kill cancer cells, if cancer has spread to others parts of the body
  8. 13. a burn from the sun that can be first, second, and third degree burn in your skin
  9. 14. To relieve a person of the symptoms of a disease or condition.
  10. 15. a disease that involves the growth of abnormal cells in your skin tissues.
  11. 18. Cells that don’t spread or cause harm
  12. 19. Brown pigments that gives you skin its color and protects against some of the sun’s damaging UV rays.