Skin Cancer: Clarifying The Three Types
Overall rating: (N/A)
The article "Skin Cancer: Clarifying the Three Types" is about cancer, it has been written by Gabe Mirkin, M.D..
There are three main types of skin cnacers. Melanoma is a skin cancer that starts in moles and can spread rapidly through your body and kill you. Moles that have irregular borders and multiple colors should be removed to be checked for mleanoma.
Moles that have smooth circular borders and are of one color are almost never melanoma cancers.The second type of skin cancer is called squamous cell cancer.
These can occasionally spread through the body and be fatal.The third and most common type, basal cell skin cancer, rarely spreads through the body and can be crued just by taking out 100 percent of the lesion. They are called cancers because they keep on growing through everything around them until they are completley removed. Basal cell skin cancers fall apart and feel like marshmallows when they are srcaped. All a doctor has to do is to inject an anaesthetic into the lesion, scrape the basal cell cacner until he feels the hard resistance of normal skin. He then burns an area of normal skin around the lesion to guarantee the removal of the entire cancer.You can suspect that you have a basal cell skin cancer when you develop a red scaly area on the surfcae of a light-exposed area of skin. That is probably an actinic keratosis that can often be removed just by applying a special cream called imiquimod.
However, if you levae the red area in place, it can go deeper and became a skin cancer.
You can suspect that the actinic keratosis has gone deeper when the surafce feels rough like sandpaper. If you let it grow further, it can become an elevaetd area with a fine pearly border.Dr.
Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and practiicng physician for more than 40 years; he is board certified in four specialties, including sports medicine.
Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health reports at http://www.DrMirkin.ComFree weekly newsletter on fitness, health, and nutrition.
|
Write a comment about the article
Skin Cancer: Clarifying the Three Types
|
