Mohs Surgery For Skin Cancer Treatment

Mohs surgery is the most effective and state-of-the art procedure for treating skin cancer. The surgery offers great potential for recovery. Even your skin cancer has been treated previously and recurred, and then also the surgery can be very effective in treating the condition.

Make sure the surgery can be performed by professional surgeons. Using the mohs surgery, the surgeons are able to see beyond the visible disease in order to accurately recognize and remove the whole tumor layer by layer whereas leaving the surrounding healthy tissue unaffected and unharmed. This is the most accurate and precise treatment for tumor removal and it lessens the chances of re occurrence of the disease as well as decreases the potential for scarring or disfigurement.

How effective is the surgery?

Mohs surgery is an effective and accurate means to treat squamous cell and basal cell skin cancers. As the surgery features a systematic microscopic search that identifies skin cancers down to its roots, so there is greater chance for the removal of tumor while sparing normal tissue surrounding it.

Mohs surgery is needed when:

• Cancer is very large

• Cancer was treated previously and occurred again

• Edges of the cancer are not defined clearly

• The growth of the cancer is rapid and uncontrollable

• Existence of scar tissues where cancer is present

• Cancer exists in the area where it is essential to protect healthy tissue for maximum functional and cosmetic result like nose, fingers, genitals, eyelids, toes, ears, lips.

Are there any risks associated with mohs surgery?

Similar to any other surgical method, mohs surgery has also its own risks, such as:

• Infection

• Bleeding

• Pain or tenderness around the surgical area

After completion of the surgery, your surgeon may recommend pain relieving medicines to help manage any postoperative pain. Usually most people experience infection after the surgery but it can be treated with oral antibiotics.

Few other complications of the surgery that occur rarely include:

• Shooting pain and severe itching around the treated area

• Temporary or permanent weakness of the surgical area

• Temporary or permanent numbness around the surgical area

Mohs Micrographic Surgery remains the most effective method of removing non-melanotic skin cancer available anywhere in the world today. Usually mohs surgery is an outpatient procedure conducted in a physician's office. The duration of the surgery depends on the extent of the tumor and the amount of reconstruction needed.

After undergoing the surgery, it is essential to visit the doctor to monitor your progress and to check for any cancer tumors recurring. Most often two of five people with skin cancer have the possibility to develop another within five years. Follow up visits are really important for early recognition of any new cancer lesions.

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Melanoma Treatment Options Gives Hope to Thousands of Patients

There are several clinics which offer melanoma treatment options to thousands of patients. Some of the typical options which they provide include the following:

Mohs Surgery

This type of melanoma treatment option is used to help cure lentigo maligna that are found in the patients neck and head as long as it has not yet spread to other areas of the body. The surgical process involves removing the cancer tissue layer by layer while minimizing the removal of other healthy tissues of the skin before finally removing the entire tumor. Every layer of skin that is removed is stained with immunohistochemical staining which helps the surgeon visualize the cancer cells. Most of the time, the removed tissue is examined under a microscope by a Mohs surgeon for confirmation that the entire cancer tissue has indeed been removed.

Radiation Therapy

This is another popular melanoma treatment option which is used to help fight aggressive melanoma tumors. This is initially treated with surgery that is soon followed by radiation treatments wherein high dosages of targeted radiation are delivered directly to the tumor cells. Those who administer this treatment give their best not to expose surrounding healthy skin tissues to radiation because it may lead to non-melanoma skin cancers.

Chemotherapy

There are different types of chemotherapy melanoma treatment options but one which is highly recommended by doctors is the hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion or HILP. In this process, the affected leg or arm is connected to a lung-heart bypass machine and chemotherapy is directly administered through the machine towards the infected leg or arm. This preferred by physicians because it guaranteed high doses of chemotherapy only to the targeted region without affecting the healthy tissues of the body.

There are other experimental melanoma treatment options that are being tried and tested by different clinics and pharmaceutical companies. But for the meantime, it is best that you stick to these safe and effective melanoma treatment options.

Malignant melanoma is a severe problem. It is important to be able to identify causes, see symptoms and have proper diagnosis. I have put together http://melanoma-survivors.com/ to help people deal with melanoma.

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Major Break Through in Skin Cancer Treatment - How Long Until it Gets to Market?

For any of us who have known victims of melanoma, we realize that a cure or permanent solution and break through is needed. Well, it appears human scientists are now well on their way to solving this challenge once and for all. There are many cancers that are not death sentences, but late stage melanoma is, well, until now it seems, because scientists have made a rather incredible break through, which gives researchers looking for cures in other types of cancers a little bit of inspiration.

Not long ago, there was a great article which gives hope for victims of melanoma (deadliest form of skin cancer) in New Scientist. The article appeared in BioTech 'Being Human' category titled; "Skin cancer treatment: Biggest breakthrough in 30 years" on June 6, 2011 by Jessica Hamzelou. The article stated;

"Two new drugs for metastatic melanoma - the deadliest form of skin cancer - are being hailed as the biggest breakthrough therapies for cancer in the last 30 years. The drugs reduce tumour size, significantly increasing survival rates. Although melanoma can be cured if caught early enough, individuals in the late stages of the disease are only expected to survive for an average of six months. One of the two drugs - vemurafenib inhibits malignant skin tumors."

The human trials have yielded such remarkable results that late stage melanoma may not be a death sentence any longer using vemurafenib, and those who did not respond to it have another new drug called "dacarbazine" which has shown decent results too according to the USDA approval notes. All of this is excellent news for those who have been diagnosed with late-stage melanoma and have been sent home without hope.

According to Wikipedia and other sources it seems more than 160,000 people each year get melanoma, and about three-quarters of all skin cancer deaths are from this type of cancer. Damaging UV light is the cause of melanoma, and UV Sun Tanning beds have been reported to be a contributing cause as well. It can also run in families and if it runs in yours, you should be seeing a dermatologist occasionally to check you over and also do some online research on your own so you can spot such spots to see if you suspect they are cancerous.

Caught early, most cases are easily treatable if the tumor is removed properly. Late stage melanoma is completely serious, but now, it may not be a death sentence, as these drugs will be available very soon. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank. Lance Winslow believes writing 23,500 articles by mid-day on June 23, 2011 is going to be difficult because all the letters on his keyboard are now worn off..

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