Using the notes you wrote as reference, review your moles for changes, touch for bumps or any painful sensation. Look if there are other skin discolorations. Changes in moles or birthmarks may indicate cancer cell activities.
When Checking moles check for its ASSYMETRY, BORDER, COLOR and DIAMETER, or simply ABCD.
Asymmetry:
Moles are usually round in [...]
Scan your body thoroughly
Using the full length mirror, examine your whole body.
First, look at your body in every direction and angle: front and back, your left and right sides.
Second, Your elbows and armpits , as well as your upper arms. Fore arms, palms, and fingernails.
Third, Examine your legs: front back and the sides.
Fourth, Examine your [...]
Skin cancer, there’s no telling when you’ll get it (if you’ll get it) on top of that it does not inflict pain in developing stages making it difficult for you to detect it right away.
It would be best to search your own body. There is nothing to lose and very little to fear because skin [...]
You are safe from cancer as long as you don’t get a sunburn?
The truth is that sunburns make your skin more vulnerable to cancer, BUT UV in sunlight damages the skin whether you get sunburned or not. You can still get cancer even if you avoid sunburns.
The sun has no permanent damage [...]
A strong dose of sunlight is necessary to maintain a good health?
While it is true that MODERATE exposure to the sun will help in the production of Vitamin D in the skin, it is not advisable to prolong yourself in the sun. Excessive Ultraviolet Rays exposure will most likely raise the risks of you [...]
Acral lentiginous melanoma is the most usual form of melanoma in Asian and Black races.
This kind of melanoma forms on the skin surfaces that have no hair, and usually the parts that are seldom exposed to sunlight but researches have no findings that Acral Melanoma us caused due to the lack of sun exposure.
It is [...]
There is a finding that the disease modifying drug Methotrexate (MTX), may be carcinogenic.
Methotraxate is usually administered to people with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disease which affects 1 percent of adults worldwide. Rheumatoid arthritis often leads to disability and eventually a diminished quality of life, it can also cause an early death as [...]
Researchers in the National Cancer Institute have discovered that a small molecule called nutlin-3A, a cancer suppressor gene has the ability to prevent cancer cells from dividing thus halting the spread of the disease. When cells divide the opportunity for mutation is high and this is what researchers are hoping to overcome with the new [...]
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Just recently, scientists have discovered that skin cancers such as mucosal and acral melanomas are brought about by a number of DNA abnormalities that happens in a gene called the KIT gene. Scientists say that if they can figure the mutation out, there is a great possibility of creating cures for it as well.
Melanoma is [...]
A Rutgers Professor has found that a drug that has been approved by the US FDA for treating Lou Gehrig’s disease has promising results by slowing the growth of Skin Melanoma’s, the most deadly form of skin cancer. The study is already in phase 0 clinical trials and the results have been promising so far. [...]
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