You will work with a partner to research skin cancer.

Comic from 2003

 

Introduction:  Cancer is a disease caused by uncontrolled cell division.  Normally cells divide at a predictable rate, but sometimes mutations cause the cell to begin dividing more quickly.  This results in a mass of cells known as a tumor and sometimes this can lead to cancer.  There are many different types of cancer, melanoma-a type of skin cancer is the 5th most comon type of cancer.

 

Credit for the idea for this webquest is given to McDougal Littel.

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