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Melinoma skin cancer

Skin Cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer.  About fifty percent of diagonsed cancers are skin cancers. There are two main types of skin cancer malignant melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer. Melanoma respresenting only about four percent of all skin cancer diagnosis is very far more dangerous than nonmelanoma skin cancer. There are many deaths caused by Melanoma skin cancer. Seventy nine percent of skin cancer deaths are from melanoma.

If you have the following symptoms, you may have Melanoma, seek proffessional help immediatly:

• Spots, sores, lumps, blemishes or markings on the skin that change in shape, size or color
• Skin may become reddish, crusty or scaly
• Skin may ooze, bleed or swell or may feel painful, scratchy or tender

One of the best treatments for Melanoma skin cancer is not getting it in the first place. You can lower your risk of not getting skin cancer if you do not fall into the following catagories:

• Frequent exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays: Use sun screen and avoid prolonged exposure to high ultra violet rays. Also don`t use a tanning bed.
• Fair skin: This is something you cannot change but casuations have twenty times more likely chance of devolping skin cancer and thus Melanoma.
• 50 years or older: Again this is something you cannot change. Being younger helps protect you.
• Family history: If you have a close relative(Brother, sister, parrent) who has been diagnosed with skin cancer you are at high risk. High risk is an additional ten percent chance that you will devolp skin cancer.
• Male gender: Another downfall of being male. Yeah right. Anyways males are twice as likely to devolp skin cancer.
• Reduced immunity: People who have aids, or other things that supress immune function are at greater risk. Reduce your sugar in your diet and drink only clear liquids to increase your immume function.
• Exposure to chemicals: Working with or being around chemicals can increase your change of getting skin cancer. To reduce your risk of devolping skin cancer avoid working with or being around chemicals.
• Exposure to radiation: Avoid exposure to radation. Also people who have been treated for other forms of cancer run the risk of devolping skin cancer.
  

Once you have caughten skin cancer there are several ways to treat it.

Surgery: Surgery can be used to remove the melanona.

Chemotherapy: Is the use of chemicals to treat the disease. Refers to cytotoxic drugs to treat the melonama skin cancer. most chemotherapeutic drugs work by impairing mitosis (cell division), effectively targeting fast-dividing cells.

Radiation therapy: is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant Melonama cells. Many different radition machines point from different angles so that the normal tissue is spared from the treatment while the inflicted area gets a much higher dose.

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