You look in the mirror and see a dark black spot on your skin you don’t remember seeing before. Do you ignore it and go on with your day? If you do, it could cost you your life.
That dark black spot on your skin was melanoma cancer. This skin cancer forms when skin cells are destroyed and start to create cancer cells. The skin cells can be destroyed from a severe sunburn or/and tanning beds. When it first forms it will look like a dark freckle and it will start to become bigger until it is large enough to spread to the other organs. “In 2016 alone, over 10,000 people died in the U.S.” Says the Melanoma Research Foundation.
There is no definite way to avoid this cancer because your age and family history can't be controlled. Although there are ways you can try to prevent this cancer from happening in the future. The best thing to do is to stay away from tanning bed because the ultraviolet rays will start to damage your skin cell until they are destroyed causing cancer cells. In the summer the Sun is always stronger so you need to put on sunscreen to make sure that you are protecting your
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So what are we already doing to help? In order to treat melanoma they have to diagnose what type it is. If it is Type 0-3 then it is treatable by surgery, but if you are diagnosed with type 4 or recurrent than it has already spread to the other parts of your body. By this time you have 5 months to live and you have a 10-15% chance of surviving. There is no cure for these two stages other than antibiotics and hope (positive attitude). Today scientists are trying to find a cure to melanoma by taking the tumors that have been removed from people and try to break all of the components down. Three out of ten people will have to get a tumor removed four times before they can know for sure that the cancer is
She thought that she wouldn't get skin cancer, and she wasn't even that concerned when she noticed a lesion on her skin. It turned out to be a benign form of skin cancer, and she was able to get it removed, but this still didn't stop her from tanning. Unfortunately,
Although tanning beds can help you get a healthier complexion, they can put you at risk of cancer, sunburn, and adversely affects the immune system. However, people who use tanning beds don’t have many complications. Frequent tanning bed users regulate how much they tan to reduce the risks of complications. People only tan two to three months out of the year limiting their risk to skin cancer and other complications.
Treatment for melanoma could even include chemotherapy: The treatment of disease by the use of chemical substances, especially the treatment of cancer by cytotoxic and other drugs. Even one indoor tanning session can increase users’ risk of developing melanoma by 20 percent, squamous cell carcinoma by 67 percent and basal cell carcinoma by 29 percent ("A urging issue: indoor Tanning debate heats
We all know someone who has visited a tanning bed. Whether the reason was to get a base tan for a vacation, or wanting a little color for prom, people who use tanning beds are the most susceptible for developing skin cancer. The negative effects of using a tanning bed, cancer and expensive treatments, are why tanning beds should be banned for everyone of all ages. The three main types of skin cancer are basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, and squamous cell carcinoma, according to the article “Sun Exposure, Skin Cancer, and Other Skin Damage,” on WebMD.
Imagine, your child has been having a pain in his stomach for weeks. He has been screaming uncontrollably. You have taken him to the doctors multiple times, only to be told it is just a virus. You finally take him to the ER, determined to find an answer and end your child 's pain. When you get to the ER they decide to do an MRI on his stomach.
A 52 year old patient was referred to hospital for widespread tense, serous fluid filled blisters with an inflammatory base in the skin. Discuss the integumentary assessment for this patient? Integumentary Assessment: An examination of the integumentary requires some understanding of the structure and function of the system. There also needs to be an awareness of the appearance of the skin in healthy and diseased states.
On an average day there are about a million people who go tanning on a regular basis, and of those million people, most are younger, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-nine (Hochman). People who use tanning beds before age of thirty-five have a seventy-five percent increased risk of developing melanoma (Fellingham). There are approximately 65,000 new cases nationwide of melanoma and about 9,000 deaths each year from the most preventable disease (Salsberg). Researchers said that there is a death every hour because of melanoma
and I don’t see remission in my future. I worry what the future holds and where I will be in 10 years. How will I take care of myself. Who will I have when my parents are no longer around? Taking life one day at a time is all I can do and that is scary in and of itself.
The main sign of vitiligo is pigmented or color loss that produces white or light colored patches on the skin. The main parts of the body most at risk for this condition are areas of the skin exposed to the sun. Vitiligo, usually, first appears on the hands, feet, arms, face, or lips because these areas are most exposed to the sun. There are many signs of the condition of vitiligo. The main five signs are skin discoloration, premature whitening or greying of hairs, loss of color in the tissues that line the mouth and nose, loss in color of the inner layer of the eyeball, or discolored patches around the armpit, navel, genitals, and rectum.
UV radiation is a form of energy from natural and artificial sunlight. Excess amounts can cause damage to DNA in the skin. Although some argue tanning is good for you because it helps form a “base tan” and the UV exposure time is controlled. The truth is, each time you lay in a tanning bed, it increases the risk of developing skin cancer
Many are often not diagnosed early enough because they look like moles or other discolorations on the skin. However, Melanoma cancer will have irregular shapes and an oddly shaped border. There may also be wider variations in the colors. This type of cancer is the most dangerous as it does spread quickly to other areas in the body if it is not treated.
One million people in the U.S are diagnosed each year with some types of skin cancer. There are three major types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and of course melanoma. Most people are more familiar with melanoma and because it is the least common they continue to think they won’t get cancer. The majority of skin cancer cases are basal cell carcinomas and squamous cells carcinomas. They are malignant meaning they will not spread to other parts of the body, and are usually able to be easily removed.
Using tanning beds before the age of 30 increases the risk of getting the deadliest skin cancer (Melanoma) by 59 percent (Hughe, D. 2012).Yet still, there is the question of, “ Should teens be allowed to use tanning beds?”. Tanning has proven to contribute to developing skin cancer, so tanning dramatically increases the chance of developing cancer. Also, the color skin turns from indoor tanning can be quite unnatural and it can be very obvious that the person had gone indoor tanning based on the color of their skin. To add, the conditions of the tanning beds are not as sanitary as people may think. The beds can have all the germs of the people who tanned there before because the beds are not being cleaned regularly.
The UK Cancer Research Center recommends getting enough safe Sun exposure daily for 15 minutes between 10 a.m and 2 p.m. A person with a dark skin tone may require 90 minutes, while the elderly require about 30 minutes (Vitamin D, 2015). B. Until now , Society has been misled by the beauty industry that the Sun is dangerous and that it causes Skin Cancer. They have recommended that a person should instead resort to supplements as well as Vitamin D fortified foods . Clearly , the Sun isn’t dangerous , overexposure to it is.
More and more people have cancer these days. It is almost like the plague that no one wants to talk about, and it keeps getting worse. • In the early 1900s, one in 20 developed cancer. •