John Cena is urging people to be aware of the symptoms of skin cancer after he was forced to have two 'cancerous spots' removed. The professional wrestler, 47, has spoken out about the importance of ...

The stages of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) range from 0 to 4. At stage 0, there are atypical cells that are not yet cancerous, which may or may not be visible. By stage 4, the cancer may be large ...

Not all cancers are carcinoma. Other types of cancer that aren't carcinomas invade the body in different ways. Those cancers begin in other types of tissue, such as: Basal cell carcinoma.

"It's much like doing a medical CT scan where you can see inside of the cell non-destructively, so you don't have to cut the cell open," says Carolyn Larabell, a cell biologist at UC San Francisco.

The different types of radiation therapy used to treat squamous cell carcinoma are: Superficial radiation therapy: Beams of radiation are directed just beneath the skin, which treats only the tumor.

Doctors also found a lesion on the left side of Dr. Biden's chest, which similarly contained basal cell carcinoma, though O'Connor said it was also "successfully removed." He added that lesions ...