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* Difference between cancerous and noncancerous skin lesions.
Cancerous skin lesions.(Malignant skin cancers)
* Lesions with irregular borders.
* Rapidly growing or increasing the size of the lesion.
* Metastasis to other areas of the body.
* Negatively affect the functioning normal cells near the lesion.
* Reccurance may occur after removal of cancerous skin lesions.
Non cancerous lesions.(Benign skin cancers)
* Lesions with regular borders.
* Slowly growing lesions on the skin.
* Non cancerous lesions not show metastasis.
* No effect on normal cells near the lesion.
* Reccurance will not occur after removal of noncancerous skin lesion.
how can we differenciate appearances of skin lesions cancerous versus noncancerous.
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