To prevent or be aware of cancer need to do several
stages or diagnosis, to accurately diagnose skin cancer, the doctor will apply
the following steps to the patient:
• physical examination of the skin. The doctor will
examine the form of skin disorder mainly changes happening in his physical
appearance. With this examination, the doctor will determine if changes caused
by cancer or other diseases.
• Perform a skin biopsy. Examination of tissue
samples taken through skin biopsy in the laboratory.
After the diagnosis is made, the doctor will
determine the severity of skin cancer suffered by virtue of stadium ya as follows:
•
Stadium 0, indicating that the cancer network was still in
the place where it first appeared and has not spread (in situ).
• Stadium 1, indicating that the cancerous tissue is still
small and has not spread.
• Stadium 2, indicating that the cancer network has already
grown, but have not spread.
• Stadium 3, indicating that cancer
has already grown up and already spread to surrounding tissues or to nearby
lymph nodes.
• Stadium 4,
cancer has already spread to other parts
of the body or have already undergone metastasis.
Determination of skin cancer stage is carried out in
order to determine the appropriate treatment. On the basal cell carcinoma,
cancer cells usually do not spread so that the skin biopsy can determine the
type and stage of cancer. But on the type of skin cancer, including squamous
cell carcinoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, or
melanoma, doctors will conduct a follow-up inspection in order to get more
accurate results. One of the advanced examinations
is usually done is a biopsy of the lymph nodes in the area of cancer.
Skin
Cancer Treatment
The handling is done depends on the type and stage
of cancer of the skin. The main skin cancer treatment is surgery to remove the
cancer cells, mainly on the type of melanoma.
On the type of melanoma skin cancer, treatment is
tailored to the stage of cancer. An overview of treatment for each stage of
cancer is as follows:
• 1st and 2nd stage Melanoma can be treated with
surgery to remove the cancerous tissue and healthy skin around the network.
This surgery is the surgical excision. If surgical excision process is expected
to leave vast scars, this procedure can be combined with skin grafting (skin
grafting). Surgical excision has pretty
good success in cancer patients melanoma stages 1 and 2, i.e. approximately
80-90 percent. After surgery, the patient will be monitored intensively
condition by health workers.
• stage 3 Melanoma can be treated with surgical excision on the cancerous tissue. To
keep cancer did not spread to other
organs of the body, can do a biopsy the lymph nodes. If the results of a biopsy
of the lymph nodes showed cancer had
already spread to the Glans, then can do the surgical
removal of lymph nodes to prevent further spread of cancer.
• stage 4 Melanoma occurs when cancerous tissue has
already spread to other organs (metastasis). The goal of cancer treatment is no
longer a 4 stage to kill cancer cells, but to extend the patient's life
expectancy, slowing the growth of cancer, as well as reduce the symptoms that
arise. Treatment with, among others through radiotherapy or immunotherapy.
On a
non-melanoma skin cancer, the handling can be done through the following
methods:
• Surgical excision combined with skin grafts. The
goal is to remove the cancer cells and prevent from being spread.
• Mohs Micrographic
Surgery (Mohs micrographic surgery/MMS). This method is used if the cancer
cells are feared already spread or occur on the skin which is very important,
as in the eyes or nose. In surgical MMS, the edge
of the cancerous tissue is examined microscopically to make sure all the cancer
cells have already wasted entirely. If the cancerous tissue is still there, the
dissection is carried out again.
• Curettage. This treatment method is applied to non-melanoma
cancers that are very small. Here the doctor will do a scratching cancer network to the remaining healthy tissue, then do
the burning (cauterizes). Procedure
curettage method can be done several times to make sure there are no remaining cancer cells.
• Cryotherapy. Method of treatment of this cancer is done with the use of cold temperatures to
turn off the cancer cells at the early stage. In cryotherapy, patients will be
given a liquid nitrogen to freeze cancerous tissue that causes the formation of
ulceration on the area.
• Anticancer Creams. Anticancer creams are used for
the treatment of cancerous tissue that is only found in the top layer of skin,
such as basal cell cancer or disease Bowen.
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