Friday, 22 February 2008

Types of Skin Cancer

Types of skin cancer
There are two main types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma (also called rodent ulcer) and squamous cell carcinoma.
Together these cancers are known as non-melanoma skin cancer. More than 65,000 people in the UK are diagnosed each year with non-melanoma skin cancer.
Basal cell carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
Rarer types of non-melanoma skin cancer
Malignant melanoma

read more at http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Skin