http://www.paperrater.com/free_paper_grader# Skin Cancer Skin cancer is harmful to the body and if it’s not taken care of fast enough you can possibly die because the disease will spread.Skin cancer should always be treated carefully and you should never wait.There are many ways to get treated.You can get surgical treatment, radiation treatment, freezing treatment, laser treatment, grafting treatment, photodynamic treatment (which are for seniors), and etc. Surgical treatment can be wear the doctors numb your skin and they cut the cancer part out, but that's called an excision.Another one is called curettage and electrodessication, to get the tumor out the doctors use a surgical electric instrument shaped like a spoon, they use a needle to remove …show more content…
Photodynamic therapy is kind of the same to “chemotherapy on the skin” but its actually two things that go during the treatment. First you put the chemical on your skin and let it sit for some hours and then its some kind of special light the doctors put on to destroy the cancer cells. Radiation therapy is for older adults who have cancer like a buildup of cancer and can’t use any other treatment to take care so they use radiation therapy. “Radiation therapy gradually destroys the cancer cells through repeat exposure to radiation.” Those kinds of patients can have about 15 to 30 treatments to completely or to remove most of the cancer cells. For the older adults their skin should look new because they've done this so many times, but this is only for older people like recommended for ages over 40 years of age. The most dangerous type of skin cancer is melanoma but it's less common.Just to be sure that you don't have skin cancer. You should check with your dermatologist to see if you have any weird