Curaderm-BEC5 Clinically Proven Skin Cancer Treatment

Exposure to the sun damages the skin. Depending upon the extent of time exposed to the sun, frequently as sun worshiper or occasionally doing out-door gardening, the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays damages the fibers in the skin called elastin. Eventual damage to skin varies from developing superficial wrinkles to deadly type of skin cancer. Experiencing severe sunburns before the age of eighteen may cause later in life melanoma (Malignant tumor or cancer in the skin. "It is one of the rarer type of skin cancer but causes the majority of skin cancer related deaths ." 2 Statistically one serious sunburn increases the risk by as much as 50% 9) 1 Sunlight damages the skin by harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays - UVA and UVB. Unless blocked by a window glass the UVB rays primarily cause sunburn and skin cancer. "UVA rays (which pass through window glass) penetrate deeper into the dermis or base layer of the skin." Sunscreen protection measured by Sun - Protection Factor (SPF) protect the skin from UVB rays, but not UVA rays, cause cancer and other diseases. 3 Equally damaging to the skin is UV light exposure from tanning beds.1

Skin exposure to the sun cause superficial to serious health concerns:

Elastosis (Appearance of lines and wrinkles result of destruction of elastic tissue. Commonly appears around the lips 4)

Telangiectasias - (Blood vessels under the skin become dilated 1. Also, called facial spider veins, appear as little red veins on the nose, chin, or checks. 5)

Sallowness ("a yellow discloriation of the skin".)

motted pigmentation (Discolored areas of the skin)

Freckles (Ephelides - Appearance of freckles more apparent after long sun exposure compared during winter months less predominant 6),

Fine course wrinkles

Benign tumors (non- cancer including appearance of moles. 7 The Diagnosis confirmed by characteristic appearance, patient's clinical history and / or biopsy. The benign tumor is generally removed 8)

Actinic keratosis (pre-cancerous) or cancerous carcinoma (base cell melanoma (In 2007 nearly 8,110 deaths resulted 10))