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Informative Essay: The Most Common Types Of Skin Cancer

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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer that has ever been discovered. Skin cancer kills more people every year than every other type of cancer that there is. Skin cancer is very deadly if not treated immediately. In this paper, I will be explaining what it is, how it spreads, how it is treated, and I also will be stating statistics about skin cancer. Skin Cancer is the most common type of cancer. It happens when there is an abnormal amount of skins cells growing in a certain place on your body. Skin Cancer usually develops in areas that are exposed to the sun very often, such as the face, lips, ears, chest, arms, and neck. Skin Cancer can still however develop in other places that almost never see sunlight, such as fingernails and …show more content…

It is invasive because if it is not treated soon after it happens, it begins to spread to other skin cells and thus, other parts of the body, which can prove to be very deadly. Skin Cancer does not metastasize because it is either in an advanced state or a normal state. The treatment of skin cancer varies greatly on many variables. Treatment of skin cancer can vary on the type of skin cancer, where it appears on the body, whether it is aggressive or not, what stage the cancer is in, and how healthy the patient is. Once those factors have been determined, surgery is performed. Some of the forms of surgery include excision, which is numbing the skin with the cancer and then cutting it off, cryosurgery, in which the doctor freezes the skin cancer, thus killing it, there is also immunotherapy, which is imply allowing the immune system to fight the cancer. Since skin cancer is one of the most common types of cancer there is, there are lots of statistics for it. Each year, Over 6.4 million cases of nonmelanoma skin cancer are treated in more than 3.3 million people. One in five Americans who live to age 65 will have either BCC or SCC at least once. Over the past 30 years, more people have had skin cancer than all other cancers combined. One Person Dies of melanoma skin cancer every 57

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