Archive for October, 2009

Melanocytes are the cells that make the pigment melanin. Cancer that begin in these cells are called melanoma. Mainly it begins in skin melanoma i.e., in mole, but sometimes even in other pigmented tissues, such as in the eye or in the intestines. The incidence of melanoma has increased in recent years. Heavy exposure to sun is the main cause of this melanoma type cancer; this may be due to damage to the ozone layer in the atmosphere. The risk of disease increases with thee age as the exposure time to sunlight get increased. It is found that the risk of melanoma is 2.24 times higher in people with first degree relative with the melanoma diagnosis. Melanoma disease does not have any early stage symptoms. Usually a mole is noticed to be getting rapidly bigger, or bleeding. Larger number of moles with irregular shapes and borders, a deep black colour will also represent melanoma. Those moles may either examined or removed. In its advanced stage the symptoms are cough, shortness of breath, chest pain or blood in the sputum, weakness, fatigue, weight loss and bone pain. Fine needle aspiration is done for diagnosis purpose. The only effective treatment for this melanoma type cancer is the surgical removal of the affected skin region.

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