Skin Cancer And Us Politicians
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The article "Skin Cancer and US Politicians" talks about cancer, it was written by Gabe Mirkin, M.D..
Former President Clinton had a basal cell skin cancer removed from his back while he was in office, attracting national press attention to that common form of cnacer.
There are three main types of skin cacners. President Clinton did not have a melanoma, a skin cancer that statrs in moles and can spread rapidly through your body and kill you. Moles that have irregular borders and multiple colors should be removed to be checked for melanoma. Moles that have smooth circular borders and are of one color are almost never melanoma cancers.President Clinton did not have the second type of skin cancer called squamous cell cancer. The can occasionlaly spread through the body and kill you.
He did have a basal cell skin cancer that rarely spreads trhough the body and can be cured just by taking out 100% of the lesion. They are called cancers because they keep on growing through everytihng around them until they are completely removed.
Basal cell skin canecrs fall apart and feel like marshmallows when they are scraped. All a docotr has to do to cure it is to inject an anaesthetic into the lesion, scrape the basal cell cancer until he feels the hard resistance of normal skin. Then burn an area of normal skin around the lesion to guarantee the removal of the entire cancer.You can suspect that you have a basal cell skin cancer when you develop a red sacly area on the surface of a light-exposed area of skin.
That is probably an actinic keratosis that can often be removed just by applying a special cream.
However, if you leave the red area in place, it can go depeer and became a skin cancer.
You can suspect that the actinic keratosis has gone deeper when the surface feels rough like sandpaper. If you let it grow further, it can become an elevated area with a fine pearly border.It seems that one of the requirements to become either president or vice president of the Untied States is to have a skin cancer. Lydnon Johnson, Ronald Reagan and the elder George Bush all had skin cancers removed when they were president.
Vice president Al Gore also exposed too much of his body to sunlight and had a skin cnacer removed in 1996. Vice president Dick Cheney also had a skin cacner removed. Should we conclude that exposing your skin to too much sunlight is associated with becoimng president or vice president of the United States?Read my Good Food Book FREE, with 100 healthful recipes.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, includnig sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.ComFree weekly newsletter on fitness, health, and nutrition.
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