Skin cancer: The diameter, size, lump or pigment could determine the blemish to be cancer

“Sometimes you might spot very small blood vessels on the edges, and a pearly rolled up edge.

“It’s interesting that we classify BCC’s as cancers because they grow and invade, but spread to other areas is very rare.

“Next is the Squamous Cell Cancer or SCC and this can appear as scaly patches, sometimes warty-like, or can develop as an open sore, and sometimes a nodule with a central depression.

“SCC can both grow, invade and spread.

“Finally, melanoma, which is by and large the most aggressive of the three common skin cancers, melanomas are normally pigmented, which means that these lesions are coloured.

“Melanoma can and untreated often will spread to other organs.”