| Former President Clinton had a basal cell | | | | the surface of a light-exposed area of skin. |
| skin cancer removed from his back while he | | | | That is probably an actinic keratosis that |
| was in office, attracting national press | | | | can often be removed just by applying a |
| attention to this common form of cancer. | | | | special cream. However, if you leave the red |
| There are three main types of skin cancers. | | | | area in place, it can go deeper and became a |
| President Clinton did not have a melanoma, a | | | | skin cancer. You can suspect that the actinic |
| skin cancer that starts in moles and can | | | | keratosis has gone deeper when the surface |
| spread rapidly through your body and kill | | | | feels rough like sandpaper. If you let it |
| you. Moles that have irregular borders and | | | | grow further, it can become an elevated area |
| multiple colors should be removed to be | | | | with a fine pearly border.It seems that one |
| checked for melanoma. Moles that have smooth | | | | of the requirements to become either |
| circular borders and are of one color are | | | | president or vice president of the United |
| almost never melanoma cancers.President | | | | States is to have a skin cancer. Lyndon |
| Clinton did not have the second type of skin | | | | Johnson, Ronald Reagan and the elder George |
| cancer called squamous cell cancer. The can | | | | Bush all had skin cancers removed when they |
| occasionally spread through the body and kill | | | | were president. Vice president Al Gore also |
| you. He did have a basal cell skin cancer | | | | exposed too much of his body to sunlight and |
| that rarely spreads through the body and can | | | | had a skin cancer removed in 1996. Vice |
| be cured just by taking out 100% of the | | | | president Dick Cheney also had a skin cancer |
| lesion. They are called cancers because they | | | | removed. Should we conclude that exposing |
| keep on growing through everything around | | | | your skin to too much sunlight is associated |
| them until they are completely removed. Basal | | | | with becoming president or vice president of |
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| doctor has to do to cure it is to inject an | | | | Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 |
| anaesthetic into the lesion, scrape the basal | | | | years and practicing physician for more than |
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| the removal of the entire cancer.You can | | | | health reports at weekly newsletter on |
| suspect that you have a basal cell skin | | | | fitness, health, and nutrition. |
| cancer when you develop a red scaly area on | | | | |