Like most part of our body, the skin is also likely to develop cancer. Cancer is a result of an uncontrolled cell growth in one part of the body.
Unlike normal cel s which are programmed to divide, grow, and die at a certain time,
cancer cells lack the internal machinery to control growth and as a result cause severe
damage to normal cells that will be outnumbered along the process in a certain biological
locality.
Technical y, the body reacts in many ways to cancer cel s but this abnormality causes
other diseases to suffer nutritional death. Cancer cells were found to cause the body to
produce numerous blood vessel connections along the cancerous portion thereby
depriving normal cells with nutrients.
Some cel s even detach from their point of origin and travel to other parts of the body to
start a new colony of cancer cells.
Skin cancers are either melanoma or non-melanoma cancers. Non-melanomas are
cancers which arise from skin cells other than melanocytes cells. Melanomas are
cancerous melanocytes cells that produce melanin, a pigment that gives the skin its
characteristic colour