Skin Cancer Flashcards
1
Q
What is important about the skin as nurses
A
Skin assessments
And doing one during a bath
2
Q
Admission
A
What’s your health history? Do you have nay bruising?
3
Q
Types of skin cancer
A
Melanoma
Basal cell skin cancer
Squamous cell skin cancer
4
Q
Melanoma
A
The most deadly, very aggressive
5
Q
Basal cell skin and squamous
A
Can cause problems but takes years to grow
6
Q
Squamous
A
More likely to spread than a basal is
7
Q
Basal cell
A
What you see on farmers have on top of ears, head, shoulders, top of hands
8
Q
ABCDE
A
A- Asymmetry
B- border irregular
C- color
D- diameter >6
E- evolution or change in mole size shape or color
