Melanoma: how to detect skin cancer

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Melanoma

Daniel Lopes, B.Eng007 - December/2015

How to detect skin cancer

Agenda- What is cancer?- Types of skin cancer- The ABCDE rule- Treatment- Preventing

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What is cancer?Cancer is the name given to a range of more than 100 diseases that have in common the growth other body regions.

Cancer is the malignant tumor, otherwise is benign tumor.- known in medical fields as neoplasm.

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Types of skin cancer

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The skin cancer can be: Basal Cell Carcinoma, Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Melanoma.

Melanoma

Melanoma

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All they are melanoma, has 5% of cases with 5% of survive chance. It’s the worst skin cancer,

high metastic.

The ABCDE rule

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http://mirrorspectrum.com/life/have-you-heard-about-the-abcde-rules-that-can-save-your-life#

Created by Stolz in 1994 to facilite the melanoma detection

All has to be with surgery with post treatment to control metastasis.

Radiotherapy: It is a form of systemic cancer treatment that uses drugs called "chemotherapy" (or antineoplastic) administered at regular intervals, which vary with the treatment regimens.

Chemotherapy:Radiation therapy is local or regional treatment method of cancer using different site equipment and techniques to irradiate areas of the human body, prior and carefully marked.

Treatment

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Preventing1) Examine your body front and back in mirror, then right and left of the body, with arms raised, including the armpits.2) Bend your elbows and look carefully at your forearms, arms and hands, front and back.3) Look behind your legs and feet, the spaces in the toes and soles.4) Examine back of the neck and scalp with a hand mirror, separating the hair with a comb.5) Check the bottom of the buttocks and genital regions with hand mirror.

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