Burn and Skin Cancer

Essential Questions:
1.Why are severe burns life-threating?
2.What are the types of skin cancer?
A. Burns
❑ Tissue damage and cell death caused by heat,
electricity, UV radiation, or chemicals
❑ Threat to life
a. Dehydration
b. secondary infection
 Turn To Your Partner ROCK PAPER SCISSOR
• WINNER:
• What are the two main concerns for burn victims?

• LOSER:
• What are four mechanisms by which a patient can
get burned?
Types of Burns
a. First-degree
- epidermis only; redness

b. Second-degree
- epidermis and dermis, with
blistering but not destroyed

c. Third-degree
- destroyed epidermis, dermis,
often part of hypodermis
 Turn To Your Partner
• WINNER:
• Describe the key characteristics of a 1st and 2nd
Degree Burn?

• LOSER:
• Describe the key characteristics of a 3rd Degree
Burn?
Skin graft - surgical procedure in which a
piece of skin is transplanted from one area to
another
The Skin Gun - Healing Burns with Stem Cells
B. Tumors of the skin
A. Benign - e.g. warts
B. Malignant - cancerous

Types of Skin Cancer

a. Cutaneous carcinoma
- Can be squamous cell carcinoma
or basal cell carcinoma
- common in light-skinned people
b. Cutaneous melanoma
- Develop from melanocytes
- Pigmented with melanin; feel bumpy
- may arise from normal skin or from a mole

Cutaneous melanoma
ADCBE Rule of Skin Cancer
ABCDE Rule
• Used as guideline
for
malignant
melanoma
• A=Asymmetry
• B=Border
• C=Color
• D=Diameter
• E=Evolving
squamous cell carcinoma basal cell carcinoma
 Skin Cancer

Sqaumous cell carcinoma

Basal cell carcinoma Melanoma