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Introduction

This section contains information about skin cancer.

There are several different types of skin cancer. They are usually divided into melanoma and non melanoma.
Non melanoma skin cancers include: squamous cell and basal cell skin cancers.

Melanoma is a rare type of skin cancer which is treated very differently to basal and squamous cell skin cancers. To find out more about melanoma, and the help and support available for any affected by melanoma, please visit the Melanoma section of this website.

About links in this section 

Links are grouped into those which are local, within the UK and International sites.
You will find any local links available at the top of the page followed by links to national and international organisations

All the websites we link to have been checked and rated according to the quality of the information they provide. for more details please visit the How we choose links for this site page of this site

Page last edited: 28 July 2011

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Registered Office: Maggie's, The Stables, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU Registered Charity Number: SC024414
The Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust is a company limited by guarantee Company Number: SC162451