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It arises from uncontrollably growing cells, rapidly dividing cells in one area of the body, invading other bodily tissues, and spreading throughout the body. Early detection helps prevent cancer progress from reaching critical levels, reducing the risk of complications and the need for more aggressive treatment options. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) revolutionize skin cancer diagnosis by extracting intricate features from images, enabling an accurate classification of lesions. Their role extends to early detection, providing a powerful tool for dermatologists to identify abnormalities in their nascent stages, ultimately improving patient outcomes. This study proposes a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) approach to classifying skin cancer lesions. The proposed DCNN model is evaluated using two unbalanced datasets, namely HAM10000 and ISIC-2019. The DCNN model is compared with other transfer learning models, including VGG16, VGG19, DenseNet121, DenseNet201, and MobileNetV2. Its performance is assessed using four widely used evaluation metrics: accuracy, recall, precision, F1-score, specificity, and AUC. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DCNN model outperforms other deep learning (DL) models that utilized these datasets. 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These experimental results show how competitive and successful the DCNN model is in overcoming the problems caused by class imbalance and raising skin cancer classification accuracy. 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