Melanoma

Sunglasses at MBIS? Do you wear sunglasses? Well, at MBIS you don’t. Students at MBIS should be able to wear sunglasses at school because it can prevent eye damage and eye cancer. We should also examine why we shouldn’t to get a balanced view. Teachers at MBIS wear sunglasses, but kids aren’t allowed. Us kids are the future. Sunglasses protect the skin around your eyes. The skin around your eyes, including your eyelids, is the thinnest and most sensitive skin on your body which means that it…

Melanoma behaves differently to basal cell and squamous cell cancers. It can grow quickly and needs to be treated early. There are some other rare types of skin cancer • Merkel cell carcinoma • Kaposi’s sarcoma • Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma of the skin • sarcoma…

prostate cancer. This view is supported by the recent identification of RAF family gene rearrangements44 in a small subset of ETS negative prostate cancer. We have also reported RAF rearrangement in a small subset of gastric cancer (AGTRAP-BRAF) and melanoma (BRAF and RAF1). AKAP9-BRAF in thyroid cancer45 and KIAA1549-BRAF in pilocytic astrocytoma46 have also been reported by others and recently pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma was known to have RAF kinase rearrangements similar to the fusion…

Skin Cancer The abnormal growth of skin cells is what causes skin cancer. This is sometimes brought on by too much expose to the sun. There are three main types of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Reducing your exposure to sun can help in preventing skin cancer. Checking your skin regularly for any abnormalities is important to detecting skin cancer at the earliest stages. Skin cancer normally appears on areas of the body that get exposed to the…

Basal Cell Carcinoma which is the most common type of skin cancer, it is the least harmful of the three. Squamous Cell Carcinoma is a more serious cancer than Basal Cell Carcinoma, this types of cancer can grow and spread all over the body. Malignant Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer. It appears on the skin like an odd shaped mole and maybe slightly elevated. This is often found on feet toes back and legs. This cancer is more deadly because it can spread from one…

Alberto Juarez is a 50-year-old man who has come in today with a constant and “sharp” pain in the left leg near the calf. On Sunday, the patient came back from a vacation in Europe. On Monday, he went for a jog and tripped and fell and scraped his left lower leg. He cleansed the injury and put on Neosporin. That day, the discomfort in his calf started, in a part of the leg near the area of the injury. On a scale of 1 to 10, he describes the pain as a 5 and describes it as sharp and at times,…

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changes in size, changes in color, can be multicolor, has irregular border, has erosion or sore, has bleeding and does not heal. [1] The three common malignancies afflicting the skin are squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma. Squamous cell carcinoma is the malignancy of keratinocytes. [1] They are usually found on sun exposed areas, particularly the scalp, ears, lips, and hands of fair-skinned adults over 60. [1] They are a faster growing malignancy than the basal…

Cicalo continued to artificially tan until the age of twenty when she was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. After receiving a melanoma diagnosis, a patient goes through many periodical examinations. In Cicala’s case, she “gets a head-to-toe skin exam every three months, which usually result in removal of a suspicious growth” and she has had surgeries…

I learned quite a lot this week with regards to cancerous melanoma. I found out that tanning beds are quite dangerous to a person's health in that they can cause skin cancer. When a person lays down on a tanning bed they are immersed in ultra-violet radiation from head to toe. A tanning bed session can last anywhere from 15 mins. to 30 mins. which can have a tremendous impact on a person's health. Indoor tanning can cause melanoma which is the deadliest type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma,…