Mole and Skin Cancer Melanoma Diagnostic

Mole is a collection of abnormal pigment cells that appear on the skin. These cells known as melanomas. Mole is very common, the average person has a 10 to 40 moles on her body. Most moles are innate, but there is also a new present after birth. The majority of moles appear during the first 20 years of life, although there are also growing up to the age of 40s. Partial Mole disappears over the age.

 

Mole is usually colored Brown or dark brown with a round or oval shape and the width does not exceed peanut seeds. There is a flat Mole, there is also a protruding from the surface of the skin.

Melanoma

Mole is basically harmless, but there are likely to turn out to be melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer due to its ability to spread. That's why it's so important to detect changes in a mole melanoma early on, when operating with the healing rate of nearly 100%.

Melanoma can occur anywhere on the body, but is most often found on the back, buttocks, feet, scalp, neck, and behind the ears.

Here are the signs on the mole you need to beware of:

• feels itchy and painful. 
• its size is enlarged or his appearance increasingly irregular, mainly in the suburbs. 
• the color change, especially if it's to be more dark or striped. 
• spontaneous bleeding 
• There is a change of skin color around it

If you see the above symptoms, you should mengkonsultasikannya to the dermatologist or plastic surgeon for examination.

Mole is risky

Some types of mole following higher risk than others for being a cancer:

1. large mole that is innate. 
2. large mole and its shape does not manifest irregularity. This Mole tends to be inherited and usually have a dark brown colored and bright with uneven borders.

Mole amounted to 20 or more.

The Diagnosis of melanoma

Your doctor will probably ask for information on the development of Your mole and family history to assess your risk. Melanoma risk increased when you have family who are also exposed to the disease.

If the doctor suspects melanoma, surgical excision biopsy may be performed. This procedure is usually performed with a scalpel or scissors to take a small portion of the mole tissue in the lab is scrutinized for.

Operation

Mole is small and relatively harmless liquid gases can be removed by freezing or is slathered with a substance that has the same effect. For larger lesions may need to be removed through surgery. The operation is relatively simple and is usually done under local anesthetic. The area around the lesion will completely numb but you remain conscious. In some cases, it may be necessary if a gas total removal of mole is thought to time consuming or difficult. When surgery is performed with the laser then it is not necessary as it does not cause gas pain. Patients will only feel the tingling sensation during the surgical procedure.

Mole surgery procedure is very safe and most have no side effects other than possible from the dope. However, if the lesion is large enough then you can have permanent scars. Mole does not usually grow back after being picked up.

Be Ware toward Molluscum Contagiosum as Reflection of a Viral Infection

Molluscum contagiosum is an outgrowth of skin which reflects a viral infection. The virus molluscum contagiosum, which belongs to the family of the pox virus, is the responsible infectious agent.

What is molluscum contagiosum?

Molluscum contagiosum is an outgrowth of skin which reflects a viral infection. The virus molluscum contagiosum, which belongs to the family of the pox virus, is the responsible infectious agent. As its name indicates, the molluscum contagiosum spreads easily through contact with the skin. Molluscum contagiosum occurs in children or spreads through contact, but it is also a communicable sexual disease found rather in adolescents and young adults. Molluscum is a mild infection and contagious skin, it tends to heal spontaneously in the absence of treatment.

What looks like a molluscum contagiosum?

Molluscum comes in the form of an outgrowth that forms a depressed Pearl in the centre. These beads are white or the color of the skin, they are 2-5 mm in diameter. The molluscum often occur in groups of a few to a few dozen, and can locate anywhere on the body. In young children, the molluscum readily affect the neck, axillary folds, trunk, face and eyelids but also the abdomen, buttocks, thighs or arms. In adults and the adoiescents, they sit at the level of the genital regions, the thighs and the lower part of the abdomen and are most often transmitted sexually.

The molluscum can ignite and become red, which often announces their next disappearance.

A red, grainy, spot that itchy, sometimes surrounds the molluscum: it's a plate of eczema most often found in children who have a constitutional eczema or atopic eczema.

How catch of molluscum?

The molluscum contagiosum virus is generally transmitted by direct contact of the skin with an infected person; It is also spread to the surrounding skin by contact or scratching. Although this is rare, it is possible to contract the molluscum by indirect contact with personal effects such as the towels. The incubation period, since the contact contaminant until the appearance of the buttons, ranges from two weeks to six months.

The molluscum often occur among children aged 2 to 12 years; contamination occurs readily in sports activities or when promiscuity and contacts between children are important (public swimming pools, showers, bathrooms, sports of contacts).

The molluscum can affect adolescents and adults who they are readily transmitted sexually, especially when they are located on the genital regions.

Suggestion:

• Temporarily avoid promiscuity of children contaminated with others at the baths, pool or activities for the practice of sports contacts. 
• Avoid sharing towels toilet used by infected patients. 
• Discourage the scratching of the molluscum: this encourages their dissemination. 
• Avoid sexual contact during the period where one has molluscum.

How your doctor make the diagnosis of molluscum?

A simple review of the skin is usually sufficient. If in doubt, your doctor can examine under the microscope a molluscum from the curette to confirm his diagnosis.

What is the natural history and prognosis of the molluscum?

Molluscum is a benign condition that usually heals spontaneously. But when some molluscum disappear, others may occur by contamination of the surrounding skin. It may take six months to five years for all molluscum permanently disappear without treatment.

The extension of the molluscum is sometimes more important in children with atopic eczema.

Patients reach AIDS are more susceptible to molluscum spread or reach a large size.

Should we treat the molluscum?

Some doctors recommend to treat the molluscum, because they disappear spontaneously. In France, dermatologists are favourable to the molluscum treatment to avoid their dissemination and shorten the duration of natural evolution.

How dermatologists treat the molluscum?

The most effective treatment is probably scratching of the molluscum with a curette, but this procedure is a little painful. It often requires a local anaesthetic with the help of a cream applied an hour previously. The molluscum freezing with liquid nitrogen is also a frequently used method. Several treatment sessions spaced 3 to 6 weeks are often necessary, because of the appearance of new lesions or if the molluscum are many.

Other methods, such as delicate electrocoagulation, laser, local cream retinoid or substances such as the cantharidin, applications are best in France, but more rarely.

This may be considered to treat the molluscum pending their spontaneous disappearance, particularly in young children when the molluscum are many.

Are there new treatments in preparation?

Several interesting therapeutic are being evaluated. A basis of imiquimod cream, that modulates the defences of the body, is already successfully used in the treatment of genital warts. A cream that contains an antiviral substance (cidofovir) is also in experimentation.

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Treatment of Skin Cancer by Dynamic Phototherapy (PDT)

Dynamic photo-therapy uses a photosynthesizing substance that is applied to the skin for a few hours before his exposure to a specific light.

Dynamic photo-therapy uses a photosynthesizing substance (causing a tissue susceptibility to some lights) that is applied on the skin for a few hours before his exposure to a specific light (light blue or red).

The substance is applied to the skin as a liquid or cream that contains (5-ALA-HCL) aminolevulinic acid and the methyl aminolevulinate (MAL). These photo-sensitizers is specifically absorbed by the diseased tissues, and sebaceous glands.

The Red or blue light exposure is achieved with a special lamp that active substance that has penetrated the tissues. Activation of photosynthesizing substance causes the specific destruction of tissues which have absorbed it.

The Galderma laboratory markets Metvixia cream France, its use is indicated for the treatment of Actinic Keratoses (precancerous Keratoses), superficial basal cell carcinomas face and the Bowen disease (Intraepidermal squamous cell carcinoma). Metvixia  cream is applied to the area was treated for three hours before lighting lights LED red (Aktilite). Metvixia treatment protocol is detailed on a separate sheet. Metvixia ® is available now in France. The essential interest of dynamic phototherapy with Metvixia (MAL - PDT) is the treatment of cancer of the skin, it allows eliminating virtually without scar of precancerous lesions of the skin and certain cancers. This technique also allows to simultaneously process several lesions. One or several treatments may be necessary.

The DUSA laboratory markets the Levulan Kerastic in the United States and the Canada, it is a liquid applied to the area to treat for 12 to 16 hours before its activation by light blue (BLU - U). Dynamic phototherapy with 5 - ALA (ALA - PDT) is also used to destroy Keratoses Actinic but also in the treatment of acne and the field of aesthetics (treatment of brown spots and wrinkles). Levulan kerastick is not indicated for the treatment of skin cancer.

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