Informative Essay On Skin Cancer

Alyssa Hall

Ms. Morguelan

Biology

12 January 2015

The Fault in Our Cells - Skin Cancer

There are many types of cancer in this world, and every day someone is diagnosed with it. People go through tough battles to overcome cancer, but not all succeed. The main focus right now is skin cancer. Skin cancer is just as serious as any other cancer and it is just as harmful. Cancer isn’t something to be joked around with, it takes lives twenty-four seven.

Cancer is a disease that no one sees coming. It if the rapid replication of mutated cells in a part of your body. When something goes wrong in the copying of DNA, which is a part of cell replication, then mutated cells will form. Cancer cells do not die like ordinary cells and they can also enter or spread different tissues unlike healthy cells. If you look at the process of which cells duplicate, it goes quite slow. If you look at cancer cells duplicating, it is ten times faster than normal. That’s why you have to act quickly to treat the cancer cause it will spread like a wildfire. The type of cancer that was researched and is the main topic right now is skin cancer. There are many causes and it is easy to prevent the disease.

Skin cancer causes are pretty common and simple.

UV rays from the sun can cause skin cancer, even going to the tanning bed can be a cause. The rays are very harmful to your skin and some people don’t take it seriously. There are some signs as well. For example, you can get rashes on your skin that don’t go away or it could be huge freckles anywhere on your body. There are not many symptoms for skin cancer, but if you do have it, you can get something that looks like an infection on your skin. It could be a hole or just look like a big wound. It’s quite disturbing and no one really wants something like that on there

skin.
An easy prevention for skin cancer is wear your sunscreen! It takes seconds to apply it to your skin before you go outside. You don’t only apply some before you go swimming, if you are outside period, you should have some on. You should put it on your arms, legs, face, your whole torso, and your ears. It might be weird to put it on your ears, but have you ever seen someone with very red ears in the summer? That’s because they are sunburnt which can led to skin cancer. Another prevention is do not go to the tanning bed. If you don’t know what a tanning bed is, it’s a shop where you can pay to lay in the machine full of lights that tan you. Getting tans is great, just not like that. It’s a huge cause and you can easily stop it by not going. The main treatment for skin cancer would be chemotherapy. That is the main treatment for all cancers really. An alternative treatment, depending on how severe your skin cancer is, you can go get surgery to get the cancer cut out as well.
There has been a lot of research being done on this topic. Not any breakthroughs though. Every day there is someone working on the cancer and so far nothing spectacular has happened. The only thing that has been found out is how serious this can be and different ways of treating this. It’s serious and it can’t be ignored anymore.

Works Cited Page

"What Is Cancer?" National Cancer Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2015.
"What Is Cancer?" National Cancer Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2015.