Melanoma

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 melanoma, skin, found, cancer, body, tumor, warning, therapy, spread, chemotherapy, cells, sign, radiation, nodes, lymph, brown, biological, type, treatment, tan, stage, people, part, original, mostly, mm, first, called, appears, time, thick, superficial, spreading, maligna, lentigo