| Former President Clinton had a basal cell skin | | | | light-exposed area of skin. That is probably an |
| cancer removed from his back while he was in | | | | actinic keratosis that can often be removed just |
| office, attracting national press attention to this | | | | by applying a special cream. However, if you |
| common form of cancer. There are three main | | | | leave the red area in place, it can go deeper and |
| types of skin cancers. President Clinton did not | | | | became a skin cancer. You can suspect that the |
| have a melanoma, a skin cancer that starts in | | | | actinic keratosis has gone deeper when the |
| moles and can spread rapidly through your body | | | | surface feels rough like sandpaper. If you let it |
| and kill you. Moles that have irregular borders and | | | | grow further, it can become an elevated area |
| multiple colors should be removed to be checked | | | | with a fine pearly border.It seems that one of the |
| for melanoma. Moles that have smooth circular | | | | requirements to become either president or vice |
| borders and are of one color are almost never | | | | president of the United States is to have a skin |
| melanoma cancers.President Clinton did not have | | | | cancer. Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan and the |
| the second type of skin cancer called squamous | | | | elder George Bush all had skin cancers removed |
| cell cancer. The can occasionally spread through | | | | when they were president. Vice president Al Gore |
| the body and kill you. He did have a basal cell skin | | | | also exposed too much of his body to sunlight |
| cancer that rarely spreads through the body and | | | | and had a skin cancer removed in 1996. Vice |
| can be cured just by taking out 100% of the | | | | president Dick Cheney also had a skin cancer |
| lesion. They are called cancers because they keep | | | | removed. Should we conclude that exposing your |
| on growing through everything around them until | | | | skin to too much sunlight is associated with |
| they are completely removed. Basal cell skin | | | | becoming president or vice president of the |
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| the basal cell cancer until he feels the hard | | | | physician for more than 40 years; he is board |
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| develop a red scaly area on the surface of a | | | | |