What are the common signs of skin cancer?
Skin cancers may not only appear on some exposed skin. In fact, one of the most common sites for melanoma, which is a cancerous mole, is on the back of the legs, or the front of the legs in women, which is not an area that people often associate. The signs of skin cancer really are widely different, but it can be summed up by anything that scabs, bleeds, crusts, doesn’t heal, or repetitively bleeds, and even that appears to heal between those bleeding episodes. If you’ve got a mole that has changed in any way, if it’s become scaling, crusted, darker, become irregular in shape or color, or if it’s a new mole that’s suddenly appeared. Any of those can be the sign of a cancerous mole. If you’ve got a little ulcer, a break in the skin, that bleeds or crusts or is shiny, that can be a sign of squamous cell, or basal cell cancer. If you’ve got lots of flat, scaly spots on the face or on the back of the hands, that can be a sign of pre skin cancer, also known as silicatosis. With any of those
