Identifying And Treating Nonmelanoma And Deadly Melanoma Cancers For The Best Outcomes

If you are stricken with nonmelanoma skin cancers, these cancers do not generally metastasize or spread to other parts of your body. However, melanoma skin cancer is a deadly and rare skin cancer, and this condition can invade tissues that are near the site of cancer invasion. Cancer cells under those conditions may then spread to other parts of your body.

Nonmelanoma Cancers

Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas are nonmelanoma cancers that are easily identified and removed by skin cancer surgeons. The small tumors are reportedly burned away through a cauterization process or frozen using liquid nitrogen treatments. In some cases, surgeons choose to use radiation low dosages to neutralize nonmelanoma cancers.

Keeping Melanoma Cancer at Bay

Once you are diagnosed with melanoma, treatment becomes a race against time. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends that you avoid UV exposure from 10 AM to 4 PM each day in the first place, which it states is a hazardous time for sun exposure in the United States. Indoor tanning is not an alternative, the CDC contends, since this tanning activity can also cause you to develop melanoma skin cancer..

Treating Melanoma Skin Cancer

If discovered in its early stages via biopsies, your melanoma cancer can be successfully biopsied and treated at a place like TrueSkin Dermatology & Surgery, Inc. before metastasis sets in. Surgeons fully remove melanoma tumors and might even excise what they refer to as safe margins of tissues and lymph nodes for testing. This testing is done to ensure that the cancer has not spread to margins and nodes. Once the nodes and margins are declared free of cancer, treatment is designed to treat cancer-affected areas only.

Treatment to Slow Down Cancer Spread and Offer Relief

Depending upon your medical prognosis, your surgeon may have to advise you that chemotherapy and radiation cannot cure you of melanoma cancer that is in an advanced stage. The treatments you receive when you are diagnosed with advanced melanoma cancer are specifically designed to only slow down the cancer spread and offer you relief from the overall symptoms of this devastating melanoma skin cancer condition.

Things You Can Do to Avoid Developing Skin Cancer

If you notice skin changes or wart conditions that have changed, be sure to make an appointment with your physician to learn what might be responsible for those changing medical problems.  Remember to stay out of the sun and wear proper apparel that covers the exposed areas of your body when you are spending time outdoors. The simple act of also wearing a hat can help protect you from searing UV rays of the sun that result in melanoma skin cancer. Prevention as a means of warding off skin cancer is always better than having to undergo treatment for the disease.