How to spot malignant mole?
This morning I took a bath. The hot water feels so nice during the winter day. There were funny skin itching back. He looked in the mirror, do it this way, this way. It is small mole on the back Do you remember this place had been there for years, since childhood. This place does not get that strange itching?
Recently, you heard the news that there are over 50,000 new cases of melanoma each year. This number increases by 3% per year.
What the hell? In this small point which again was out of control?
There are several types of skin tumors. Many are slow growing. Many give unusual metastases. Simple removal of skin tumors most curing.
Melanoma brings big problems.
Melanoma = black, mom = tumor.
You can detect melanoma by self-exam. Skin cancers show themselves much easier than all other cancers.
At the same time you can cure melanoma by simple surgical resection. However, catch this tumor at an early stage. Metastasis in advanced stages. Surgeon can not cut all metastases in the body.
There are many sites dedicated to melanoma self. Just type the word "melanoma" into any search engine. Follow the instructions.
Fair skin people have more chances of getting melanoma. However, people with dark skin, melanoma also.
Everyone has moles. Women even use moles charm. How to tell if your mole became dangerous?
Danger signs ABACA include:
asymmetry
border
color
diameter
A-asymmetry. Lunar suspect is not seen as a round or oval blot. Often, early melanoma looks more like a transfer with an odd shape.
B border. Borders become irregular, ragged, blurred. The edges of the spots become nicked.
C-color. Moles of normal color should be more or less homogeneous. The color change is very suspicious. There are shades of brown, black, beige, red. Mottled color is suspicious.
D-diameter. Change in diameter is suspicious too. Mole is greater than 6 mm is suspicious. Everybody compares 6 mm of a pencil eraser (though few people use extensively). Just to get an idea of the size limit.
Besides ABACA there could be other signs of dangerous mole:
E - enlargement and elevation over time
Also worrisome signs include easy bleeding and rather (redness) around the mole.
Itching and pain in the side of mole make you suspicious too.
History of melanoma in Family should also raise suspicion.
Some skin problems look like melanoma, but they are harmless. Anyway, do not play with them. Even experienced physician can not always know whether the lesion is malignant or not. It is better to be safe then sorry and check the troubling changes soon.
There are some rare types of melanoma. Because even obvious melanomas are not always diagnosed early, the unusual types becomes much more deadly. Often the doctor sees them too late.
Melanoma under the nails. Mucosa Melanoma. (Mouth, nose or guts) melatonin melanoma - is not even the color.
The treatment will be excision with margins and biopsy, but the most important is, of course, to catch melanoma Know that the treatment depends on the thickness of the tumor and the presence of distant metastases.
Surgeon or dermatologist cuts melanoma. Then pathologist (a specialist in medical laboratory diagnostics) looks the sample under the microscope.
The tumor is classified. The grade of the tumor provides the key to their chances of survival.
There are several classifications
Barrels classification measure penetration of skin injury in millimeters. Know that> 0.75 mm is already dangerous, but> 4 mm is Wicking.
What is 4 mm. It's nothing. Right? Take a ruler and check how 1 mm looks and how it is 4 mm.
So this is why it is important to have early melanoma.
It is also classification measure penetration Clacks melanoma in the skin and other layers.
TNT classification standardizes.
You may not know the degree unless excise and measure the melanoma penetration under microscope. This is not a do it yourself project. Surgeon and the pathologist will.
The duration of 1-2 years.
Melanoma incidence is increasing. It could be because the sun hurt more people. Other reasons may also play a role.
Treatment of melanoma includes surgical removal, chemotherapy, impenetrably, radiation therapy.
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