If the skin often feels itchy, often irritated, hardened surface, lest the skin cancer is ready ‘ate’ your skin. Skin cancer is one of the easiest cancers to prevent and handle on. However, this disease is often less well known.
Basically everyone can experience skin cancer. High-risk groups are those related to excessive sunlight for a long time. Or, people with a melamine content of the skin such as people with bright skin color.
Owner bright eyes are also more at risk of skin cancer than blacks. Which is also prone to skin cancer are people who live in areas that get a lot of sunlight as asia region. Or open the working place such as farmers, sailors, construction workers and others. Similarly, a hobby with people doing outdoor activities like tennis, surfing and sunbathing in the sun. Thus we must be alert to the possibility of skin cancer in the older age group, skin color or frequently exposed to bright sunlight.
Skin cancer can also occur due to direct contact with carcinogenic substances (such as coal, pesticides, paraffin oil) and can also result associated with the remnants of radioactive and radium. In addition, skin cancer that can be experienced by people who often experience recurrent burns, such as welders, oil workers and others.
SKIN CANCER IS KNOWN
Types of skin cancer are basal cell, melanoma cells and malignan squamosa. The first two types are most common and less dangerous than malignan. Basal cell carcinoma most commonly found in people with bright skin color is a lot of day-to-day contact with sunlight. The most common areas of attack skin cancer is found in the nose, eyelids, cheeks or body. Cancer is characterized by a lump on the surface of the skin, soft crust, place the hand injury, the limit seemed like a candle with the former slightly thickened skin.
The skin can also be obtained with the flat red center and former hardened lump. Although basal cell kasinoma is a form of skin cancer most often occurs, but this type of cancer grows slowly, rarely spread and easy to handle. Squamosa cell carcinoma usually occurs on areas exposed to the sun, especially the head and hand this skin disorder and can be translucent outstanding solid or solid that is shaped like a large mushroom. This type of cancer can spread quickly.
Malignan melanoma is a form that is less common but the most rapid spread and require the most intensive treatment. There biasannya melanoma skin, moles or spots since birth. but can also occur just diamana including under the nails, the lining of lenders and heel. Form of interference can be a small lump (less than 1.5 cm) ulcerous or crusty, flat or prominent and may be black, gray or blue. If the cancer has spread, may form one of three forms that are difficult to distinguish namely lentigo (flat, horizontal growth), the surface (well defined, horizontal growth) or modular (palpable, growing in vertical).
We Need to Observe
Simple skin examination to look for presence or absence of signs of skin cancer can be done individually by performing SSE (skin self-examination), especially on every skin, mole or scar tissue patches since birth. SSE recommended done every month at the same time as each date one evening after a bath. For women dlakukan SSE can coincided with BSE (breast self-examination) breast self-examination or realize.
In addition to signs such as the SSE is observed, should also observe the traditional signs such as changes in the growth of new skin that is not fair, wound does not heal or any particular part of the skin that often become irritated. If there are a variety of conditions, as stated above it is advisable to immediately consult a doctor. There is and whether the cancer can be confirmed by biopsy, to suspect that if the skin cancer. the first step. Doing a quick self-examination can prevent this disease.
