A woman values her skin and caring for it will always be a part of her vanity ritual. You might have tried looking for plain soap inside a woman’s toiletries basket and found every imaginable soap or lotion ever invented instead. It’s really not easy to pamper and keep the skin silky smooth, especially now that all the damage to the earth has made it almost impossible to keep the UV rays of the sun from reaching our skin. While all the lavish care and attention on your precious skin will do you good. There’s always the danger of developing bad skin cells that might lead to skin cancer.

The type of cancer that infects the skin is called skin cancer. Detection of this cancer is usually done by looking for melanoma, a pigment that develops in skin. Signs of skin cancer also include a sudden variation in the texture, the sudden presence of wounds and sores that take too long to heal. These signs indicate that the skin’s normal processes are going awry and that there is something wrong.
In fact, even without the presence of melanoma, you may develop skin cancer if you have asquamous cells and carcinoma. These two are also called non-melanoma skin cancer. There is an estimated 1,000,000 new cases of non-melanoma cancer in the USA during this year alone.

UV Light (Ultra Violet) from the sun damages the skin’s DNA. DNA is the genetic core of any cell in the body. Any cell with altered DNA becomes mutated. The mutated version of these skin cells are aggressive, could grow in number and could turn into cancers.

Some of the main causes of skin cancer are extreme exposure to ultraviolet rays from the sun and air pollution. Although sunlight is extremely vital to daily life because it keeps us warm and allows the production of vitamin D, extreme denudation of the environment has eroded the protective layer in the atmosphere that keeps harmful UV rays out. Now, the UV light that reaches the earth through sunlight damages the DNA in skin, causing the mutation of skin cells. Melanoma is a common skin cancer type in men and women between the ages of 15 to 44 years old. Melanoma the cancer of melanocytes. These skin pigments are telltale signs of cancer. These are usually dark brown, black or blue-black.

If you spend a lot of time outdoors, and even if you simply walk across the parking lot to your office building, you are at risk of UV exposure. Not all skin types can tolerate this level of exposure for long. The risk is double for people who engage in activities such as mountaineering, rock climbing, hiking, working in the farm, or fishing. You are also predisposed to skin cancer if you have never tried or done anything to protect yourself from the sun.

Even those who are fond of sunbathing may inevitably develop skin cancer if no means of protection is used. Generally skin cancer can be stalled by surgery. Surgery is applicable for those whose skin cancer has not reached terminal status. Advanced cases are usually treated using chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy.