Types of Skin Cancer


Skin cancer is classified into several categories, depending on the part of where the affected skin layers. As we know our skin consists of several layers of skin.

1. The first type of skin cancer: Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC)
It is a type of skin cancer that attacks the people who live in the tropics, where sun exposure really significant stuff a lot. SCC skin cancer suffered by many men, more specifically, men who are elderly. Skin cancer disease is easily spread to other parts of the body, and is caused by keratenosit epidermal cells.
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Breast cancer sign and symptoms


Breast cancer has become a particularly nasty killer in the world. Patients with breast cancer growing increasingly.

Surely, people with breast cancer can be cured. Mortality risk for breast cancer could be minimized, if the breast cancer is detected more quickly and earlier.

Let us consider the common disorders that occurs in the breast:
Some common disorders that often occur in the breast is as follows:
1. For a benign lump, this disorder not actually need any treatment. If the lump feels disruptive or growing, can be done surgically or if a lump filled with fluid. But it won’t metastatic to other part of your body.
2. Pain.
Just like the other part of our body, breast may pain.Pain can also arise if there are lumps, infection, or cancer of the breast. However, people with breast cancer rarely feel pain. Breast pain often go away without any treatment needed. If pain in the breast occurred in over one month or can not lose with the pain-reducing medication, you need to consult with a physician.
3. Fluid Exit
Discharge from the breast is actually a normal thing if it happen as after birth. Because the breasts secrete a fluid known as milk. Watch out if the fluid mixed with blood, which is usually caused by benign tumors in the mammary gland or breast cancer. Greenish liquid is usually caused by a benign lump. As for liquids & smelling pus caused by infection in the breast.

The sign of breast cancer of the discovery of a lump in the breast feels different. These lumps are not painful when pressed. Initially these lumps are small, but gradually enlarged and finally attached to the skin or cause changes in the breast skin or nipple.

Advanced breast cancer is very easily recognizable by knowing Operbilitas Heagensen following criteria:
• there is extensive edema of the breast skin (over 1 / 3 area of breast skin);
• presence of satellite nodules on the skin of the breast;
• type of breast cancer mastitis karsinimatosa;
• There parasternal model;
• there is a supraclavicular nodule;
• presence of arm edema;
• presence of distant metastases;
• and there are two of the signs of locally advanced, namely skin ulceration, skin edema, skin fixed to the thoracic wall, axillary lymph node diameter is 2.5 cm, and axillary lymph node attached to one another.
• There is a hard lump in the breast. Lump in the breast can be caused by various diseases, but most are benign. The lump may also form solid (fibroadenoma / FAM, lipoma, etc.) or filled with fluid (cyst).
• The nipple changes (can be entered into, or feel sick constantly), remove the fluid / blood
• There are changes in the breast skin including wrinkles, irritation, such as orange peel.
• presence of small lumps
• There are difficult to heal breast wounds
• Breast feels hot, reddened and swollen
• Feels pain / pain (can also hurt because it’s not cancer, but still be wary)
• It felt very itchy in the area around the nipple. ( If there is other skin dissorder as fungi is not include!)
• a hard lump that does not move of fixed in breast, and usually at the beginning initially painless
• If the lump is cancerous, originally usually only on one breast.

So,give attention to your breast.