| The other day, I was taken by the hair coloring of a | | | | cancer, Melanoma is "the rarest and the most virulent...." |
| clerk at the local store. I commented on how beautiful it | | | | It is typically found in people with fair skin, light hair, and |
| was, with the dark base and the natural-looking | | | | or light eyes, though it is possible in others with different |
| streaks, as if the sun had touched her alone; and we | | | | complexions, and as the experts above also assert, |
| began a conversation of how when we were younger | | | | does not exempt those with dark brown or black skin. |
| we would not have to use any hair dyes: we just | | | | Identifiable symptoms contain, mostcommonly, a mole |
| sprayed SunIn on our hair and laid out in the sun for an | | | | changing color, size, shape, or state (starts oozing or |
| hour or two. This of course led us to discussing the | | | | bleeding), or a mole that UMM notes "feels itchy, hard, |
| near impossibility of doing that now, as we have | | | | lumpy, swollen, or tender to the touch." |
| blasted the ozone layer(s) so hard we have created a | | | | Squamous Cell Carcinoma-Also called non-melanoma |
| direct line between us and the harsher (more deadly) | | | | skin cancer, Squamous Cell Carcinoma usually begins |
| rays of the sun (and no, SunIn is a pump spray, not an | | | | as a red-looking, scaly patch or patches of skin, or can |
| aerosol, so we didn't have to go there with culpability | | | | appear as nodules. Of the three types of skin cancer, |
| and irony and all). | | | | Squamous, affecting Caucasians, usually |
| But you probably didn't come here to read about hair | | | | fair-complected, is the second most common and |
| coloring techniques that are sun-free or chemical free, | | | | shows up, typically, on the ears (ear-rims), face, lips, |
| for that matter ...at least not specifically. You came | | | | and mouth. |
| looking for information on the different types of skin | | | | Basal Cell Carcinoma - The second of the types of |
| cancer. The speculation and theory does hold some | | | | skin cancer, Basal Cell Cancer, typically starts as a |
| proof against chemicals in-ahem-health and beauty | | | | "small, fleshy bump or nodule," most commonly found |
| products; and it does point to the sun's "damaging | | | | on the head, neck, and/or hands. Of the three types of |
| rays" as a possible cause, etc., but here, since we | | | | skin cancer, Basal Cell Carcinoma, which is typically |
| aren't medical professionals, specialist, or experts, the | | | | found in Caucasians, say those at UMM, make up |
| info on the types of skin cancer is going to be basic | | | | "more than 90 percent in the U.S.. |
| and absent of finger-pointing, if you will: | | | | My mother had the second most common of the |
| There are three types of skin cancer: Basal Cell | | | | types of skin cancer, on her lip, and while we at first |
| Carcinoma (a.k.a. non-melanoma skin cancer); | | | | teased her that it was herpes, she was smart enough |
| Squamous Cell Carcinoma; and Melanoma. | | | | to know it was a "sun blister" and quick enough to |
| Melanoma (also, Cutaneous Melanoma, Malignant | | | | catch it by going to a specialist. That's the good news, |
| Melanoma) - Cancer cells are growing in the | | | | to give you hope when you bemoan the loss of days |
| melanocytes, the cells that are responsible for skin | | | | picnicking, swimming, and "bathing" under the wonderful |
| pigmentation. According to University of Maryland | | | | sun. |
| medicine and other experts, of all of the types of skin | | | | |