WHAT IS SKIN CANCER AND HOW CAN YOU PREVENT IT FROM HAPPENING TO YOURSELF?
Facts about Skin Cancer
Checking Your Skin
There is a helpful key to help yourself by checking your moles and other skin growth monthly to make sure you do not have melanoma. The key is ABCDE. The first part, A, stands for asymmetry. Asymmetry is if one half of a mole looks different than the other half. The second letter, B, is border. Look at the border because the edges can be irregular. The next letter, C, is color. The color is not always the same as before. The fourth part is D for diameter. The diameter can get very large. The final letter, E, is evolving. Check the mole daily to make sure it is not changing.
Estimated Melanoma Cases
Doctors estimate about 9,710 deaths and about 76,100 cases in the United States in 2014.
How many people?
In the United States, one out of five people are diagnosed with skin cancer at least once throughout their lifetime. That is twenty percent of the United States population!
What number?
Nearly five million people are threatened with skin cancer each year.