Before you can fully understand skin cancer, it helps to know a little about what cancer is in general. Cancer is a group of many different diseases that have some important things in common. Normal cells grow and divide only when needed, but cancerous cells keep dividing when they are not needed, which creates the tumor. There are two types of tumors to be aware of and they are: benign and malignant. While both may …showed first 75 words of 890 total…

…showed last 75 words of 890 total…cancer is a serious disease. In fact, one in every ninety people in the United States will get malignant melanoma. Like I said before, skin cancer comes in three different forms: squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and melanoma. And for my grandfather it came in the form of squamous cell carcinoma, which is one of the faster growing tumors and is one of the most common forms of skin cancer in the United States.