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Dr Kara Heelan
The Royal Marsden
What does skin cancer look like?
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Skin cancer can take on many different appearances depending on the patient.
Sometimes it can look like a lump or a bump, sometimes it can look like a non-healing wound or a scaly patch and other times it can be either a new mole or a changing mole.
The key is something that you haven't noticed before or a change in your skin, this is something that you should get checked out.