What are skin tags and how are they different from moles and warts?

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What are skin tags and how are they different from moles and warts?

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Answer 1

tags stick out from the skin on a “stem”, like a mushroom.
Moles are warts are bumps on the skin, like hills.

Here is official medical info:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21528-skin-tags-acrochordons

Answer 2

Warts are caused by the an HPV infection.

Moles are benign tumors/growths caused by cellular damage, more precisely their DNA.

Skin tags are simply skin overgrowth caused by attrition of skin folds or some diseases.