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Across: 1. a cancer growth 3. The spread of a cancer/tumor to another part of the body 6. Another component of the dermis layer of the skin that maintains the stretchiness of the skin. When the elastin around hair pores breaks down from aging and sun exposure, hair pores collapse upon themselves and fill up with debris, resulting in cysts, whiteheads and/or blackheads 7. Cells in the epidermis layer of the skin that makes pigment. The melanocyte usually provides tanning and sun protection as well as ultraviolet-radiation protection to the remainder of the skin 8. the melanin in the upper layers of the skin that determines the color of a person’s skin 10. The predicted outcome of a disease or condition following either treatment or no treatment 11. Dark brown or black pigment that is naturally present to varying degrees in the skin, hair, eyes, fur or feathers of people and animals, as well as in plants 12. skin cancer that forms in the pigment; the deadliest form of skin cancer 14. Thick sensitive layer of skin or connective tissue immediately beneath the skin’s epidermis (the outermost layer) that contains blood, lymph vessels, sweat glands and nerve endings 15. The procedure in which a piece of skin or tumor tissue is removed from the patient and sent to a laboratory to determine if cancer cells are present 16. a cancer of the skin whether a melanoma or nonmelanoma 17. Able to be spread from person to person or living object to nonliving object to living object (such as person to doorknob to person). Cancer itself is NOT contagious

Down: 2. anything that increases a person's chance of getting a disease such as cancer 4. The outermost layer of the skin. The epidermis contains no nerves or blood vessels, so the epidermis alone is incapable of sensation or bleeding. The epidermis contains keratinocytes (cells that make keratin) and melanocytes (cells that make pigment), as well as other specialized cells 5. the largest organ in the body 9. the identification of something; the finding of cancer cells 10. a way to avoid an injury sickness or disease 11. A small, dark, sometimes raised, growth on human skin 13. any substance that is directly involved in the causing cancer development or in the increase of its growth