Early detection of melanoma skin cancer mortality reduction

This week published an Australian study says that early detection of nodular melanoma, rather than the more common flat melanoma, may help to reduce skin cancer mortality.

Melbourne's Alfred Hospital, researchers found that nodular melanoma - prominent, round or oval, uniform color patches - accounting for 10-15% of all melanoma, but it can cause 60-70 % of the deep melanoma, and thus life-threatening. Malignant melanoma skin cancer is more rare than others, but it is the most lethal. "We can succeed in the early detection of common melanoma, but we did not reduce mortality or reduce high-risk
Risk of melanoma, "the study of Greig (John Kelly) told Reuters," a faster growth of nodular melanoma, accounting for the majority of high-risk melanoma. "

This finding may mean that need to change the method to educate the public examination melanoma. Often, people are careful to check that the common melanoma is black or brown, they are often in a certain period of time from the size, color, shape began to change, and slowly increasing. However, nodular melanoma from a light red or red start and quickly grow. "People are very worried about him every pimple, but also worried that the lumps on the skin for years," Killy said, "but", he stressed, "nodular melanoma may be related to pimples and mass are different, it more than a month has continued during the growing. " Ordinary melanoma may grow up to 5-6 mm, can be cured, but such a large nodular melanoma can be fatal.

The researchers surveyed 125 patients with melanoma, nodular melanoma and common, to find out how they were found, the results were published in the recent "American Academy of Dermatology Journal" (the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology ). With last year's "dermatology" (the Archives of Dermatology) a study on the line, which surveyed 2,000 patients and found that most of the deep are failing early detection of melanoma, nodular melanoma it happen.