Melanoma
What is melanoma? Melanoma is a "skin disease in which cancer cells are found in the cells that color the skin." It occurs mainly in adults but it does occur in children and adolescents. "More women get melanoma than men." It is sometimes called cutaneous melanoma or malignant melanoma. "Melanoma is a more serious type of cancer than the more common skins cancers." "People most at risk from melanoma include those (1) with a high number of moles, (2) with read or fair hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and freckles, (3) who tan with difficulty and burn in the sun, and (4) with a history of the disease in two or more family members. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and biological therapy can treat melanoma. What are the warning signs of melanoma? Melanoma has five different stages. It is divided into four basic categories: superficial spreading melanoma, lentigo maligna, acral lentiginous melanoma, and nodular melanoma. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and biological therapy are the four ways to treat melanoma. Surgery is the "primary treatment for all stages of melanoma." A doctor can use one of the following operations to get rid of melanoma: (1) conservative re-excision, (2) wide surgical excision, and (3
Jesitus, John. "Melanoma Rates are On the Rise." Dermatory Times Sept. 2000: Vol. 21 There aren't that many warning signs but there are some. The first warning sign is "a skin growth that increases in size and looks pearly, translucent, tan, brown, black, red, pink, or multicolored. The second warning sign is a " mole changes in color or in texture, becomes irregular in shape, gets larger or is bigger that a pencil eraser." The third warning sign is a " spot or growth that continues to itch, hurt, crust, scab, erode, or bleed." The fourth warning sign is "an open sore that lasts for more than 4 weeks, or heals and then reopens." The fifth warning sign is a "scaly or crusty bump that is horny, dry, and rough and may produce a pricking or tender sensation." Issue 9, pg.23 (Available Online: EBSCOHOST) Skin Cancer Foundation. "The Many Faces of Malignant Melanoma." 1993 (Available Nidus Information Services, Inc. "Well-Connected Report: Melanoma." June 1999 The National Cancer Institute of the National Institute of Health. "What you Need to
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