Across
- 4. Cancer A disease that involves the growth of abnormal cells in your skin tissues.
- 5. A lotion that is rubbed on the skin to protect it from the sun
- 9. a small, often slightly raised blemish on the skin made dark by a high concentration of melanin.
- 12. oncologist gives you medications to train your immune system to kill cancer cells.
- 14. therapy strong beams of energy to kill cancer cells or keep them from growing and dividing.
- 15. keratosis precancerous skin growths that are rough, scaly, dark pink-to-brown patches..
- 16. blistering and peeling of the skin caused by overexposure to the ultraviolet rays of the sun.
- 17. Light from the sun
- 18. produce melanin, a brown pigment that gives your skin its color and protects against some of the sun’s damaging UV rays.
- 19. To relieve a person of the symptoms of a disease or condition.
Down
- 1. dermatologist uses liquid nitrogen to freeze skin cancer.
- 2. a sample of tissue is removed and sent to a laboratory where a pathologist examines it under a microscope.
- 3. forms in cells called melanocytes.
- 6. radiation with shorter wave lengths than visible light
- 7. A doctor who examines skin
- 8. an operation in which an organ or tissue is transplanted.
- 10. The travel and spread of cancer cells
- 11. cell carcinoma forms in your basal cells in the lower part of your epidermis (the outside layer of your skin).
- 13. Noncancerouserous, Doesn’t spread or cause harm
- 17. cell carcinoma forms in your squamous cells in the outside layer of your skin.