Whenever you are sitting in a doctor’s office, you usually tend to get a feeling any news will be bad news. Now just imagine sitting there and having your doctor utter the words, that you have cancer.
What would your initial reaction be to hear such news. Would you panic? Would you be in Shock? What would it mean to your life, your family, your friends if you found out you had cancer. What if it is terminal condition?
A diagnosis of cancer carries a certain stigma to it. You might begin to wonder what you did wrong. Getting diagnosed with cancer is bad enough, but the type of cancer is critical to your ultimate outcome. Fortunately, skin cancer is both treatable and preventable.
What are we talking about when we say skin cancer? In the most basic of terms, it is an unnatural growth in the layers of the skin. The growth typically occurs in the outer layer or epidermis.
It is primarily caused by sun exposure. The exposure can be for short durations that result in burns, but they can also result from exposure over long periods of time. Read the rest of this entry »