Skin Cancer

Overview

Condition Specific Sites

Symptoms

  • Melanoma
    • A large brownish spot with darker speckles, anywhere on your body
    • A simple mole anywhere on your body that changes in color or size or consistency or that bleeds
    • A small lesion with an irregular border and red, white, blue or blue-black spots on your trunk or limbs
    • Shiny, firm, dome-shaped bumps anywhere on your body
    • Dark lesions on your palms, soles, fingertips and toes, or on mucous membranes — skin that lines your mouth, nose, vagina and anus
  • Squamous cell cancer
    • A firm, red nodule on your face, lips, ears, neck, hands or arms
    • A flat lesion with a scaly, crusted surface on your face, ears, neck, hands or arms
  • Basal cell cancer
    • A pearly or waxy bump on your face, ears or neck
    • A flat, flesh-colored or brown scar-like lesion on your chest or back

Diagnosis

  • Change in skin
  • Biopsy (WebMDHealth)

Treatments

Anatomy

Ogranizations and Patient-Centered Sites