Tips for Self Examination for Skin Cancer

The ABCD and Now E's of Skin Cancer Awareness

There is a easy way to remember what to look for when examinng your skin form any changed. Just think of the ABCD..and recently the letter E has been added. The letters stand for:

Asymmetry - when one half of the growth has a different shape than the other.

Border irregular - when the growth has uneven edges

Color varied – the growth has more than one color. Melanomas may be black, shades of brown and tan, and even have specks of red, white, blue or/and black.

Diameter - a size, bigger than the diameter of a pencil eraser.

Enlargement -recently doctors haves have recognized the importance of moles that are new on getting larger in predicting high-risk lesions. Thus they have now added E to the criteria.

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