Info about Cancer
Melanoma cancer
Melanoma – the skin cancer affects the largest body part and begins in a mole or in other tissues – eyes or intestines. Different types of melanoma are: lentigo maligna, acral lentiginous, desmoplastic, nodular, soft-tissue, superficially spreading, mucosal and polypoid. Melanoma is the leader in skin disease death causes and tumors usually are brown or black. If you feel that something it is wrong, if there are changes in color or size over your skin, if lesions become painful, are swelling or itching it is best to make a doctors appointment as soon as possible.
Melanoma usually extends her activity very rapidly and the risk of appearance is higher with the advanced age but that doesn’t mean that younger people cannot be affected. Numerous cases have been reported all over the world at healthy or disease people. Melanoma develops after sun exposures or UV radiations and has a preference for fair skin, green or grey eyes and blond or red hair. It can be caused also by chemicals exposure, moles, AIDS and family history. Scientist developed a system that may track down melanoma, it is called ABCDE. The ABCDE focuses upon the following: Asymmetry – the abnormal area different form the normal one, Borders – irregular edges; Color – changes of colors from zone to zone; Diameter – the part with problems has a diameter larger than 6 mm and Evolution or Enlarging. If you can track down the symptoms in early stages of melanoma, before reaching metastasis a treatment could be applied and you have big changes for it to disappear forever. After diagnose, the ill cells are surgically removed depending on its size. If the melanoma spreads too much means that you have low chances of curing with our current technology. Treatment in this case is made only to ameliorate the condition and shrink the tumor and as methods we can say Chemotherapy, medications and radiation. In most melanoma cases appear complications that lead to tissue damages, hair loss, nausea and pain. If melanoma is considered to be of high risk then adjuvant treatment is needed such as interferon, but this medication is used only in trials and it is not recognized by all specialists.
Preventing this cancer is preferably than try to treat it. Ho can we prevent it is a question that has few answers but we can speak about avoiding sun exposures from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., wear long sleeve, long pants and a big hat, use sunglasses, use skin protecting lotion or gel. You must also avoid indirect light reflected from sun, water and snow. In a few years it is possible to relax in the sun without thinking at any consequences because scientists are developing a new treatment called gene therapy – replace the ill gene with a normal copy. Also an improvement may be considered by new methods like lymph node mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy which indicates precisely if the melanoma has spread from its location. Another solution, new to us is the molecular staging which has an “eye” so good that spots the ill cell from one million normal cells.