Skin cancers that are not melanoma are sometimes grouped together as non-melanoma skin cancers because they develop from skin cells other than melanocytes. They tend to behave very differently from melanomas and are often treated in different ways.<\/p>
Non-melanoma skin cancers include basal cell and squamous cell cancers (by far the most common skin cancers, and actually more common than any other form of cancer). Because they rarely spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body, basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers are less worrisome and are treated differently from melanoma. Merkel cell carcinoma is an uncommon type of skin cancer that is sometimes harder to treat.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Melanoma Skin Cancer About Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer. Often the first sign of melanoma is a change in the size, shape, colour or feel of a mole. Most melanomas have a black or black-blue area. Melanoma may also appear as a new mole. It may be black, abnormal or “ugly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16876,"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16785\/revisions\/16876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarecancersupport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}