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What’s It to Me?

Exposing large areas of the skin to UV radiation in sunlight while playing, exercising, and working can result in serious health problems. These problems include skin cancer of various forms.

The most common forms of skin cancer are:

• Melanoma
  • Warning signs of melanoma
  • Cure rates of melanoma
• Other skin cancers
  • Basal cell carcinomas
  • Squamous cell carcinomas
  • Warning signs of nonmelanoma carcinomas
  • Cure rates of nonmelanoma carcinomas
• Facts & Stats
• Other health effects
• What your skin looks like
  • What’s on top
  • Caught in the middle
  • Let’s look deep
• What happens to your skin when you tan
  • Stage I
  • Stage II
  • Stage III
• Burn facts: tanning vs. burning
  • Sunburn

Hey, it’s Cool in the Shade.
Protect your skin. Protect yourself.

Some pages on this website are created and maintained by kids—members of Texas 4-H.

All content is reviewed by Carol Rice, R.N., Ph.D., Professor and Extension Health Specialist, Regents Fellow.

This site has been provided to you by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas 4-H, and the Texas Cancer Council.

Last updated: 10 January, 2008

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