Melanoma is the generic name of melanin or pigmented tumors etymologically derives its name from the Greek (melas “black” + oma “tumor).

This is usually a skin tumor, but also of the bowel and the eye (uveal melanoma) and highly invasive for its ability to generate metastases.

Despite several years of extensive research, the only effective treatment is surgical resection of the primary tumor before it achieves a thickness greater than 1 mm. Although some cases disappear with ozone and natural dietary treatments.

About 160,000 new cases of melanoma are diagnosed each year around the world and is more common in men and white people living in regions with sunny climates. One cause is exposure to the sun too often.

According to the report by the World Health Organization, approximately 48,000 deaths occur associated with melanoma each year. It is estimated that malignant melanoma produces 75% of deaths associated with skin cancer.

Generally, an individual’s risk of developing a melanoma depends on two groups of factors: intrinsic and environmental factors.

Intrinsic factors include family history and inherited genotype, while the most relevant environmental factor is exposure to sunlight.

Melanoma is more common in men’s back and legs of women.

The risk appears to be strongly influenced by socio-economic conditions of the person, not so much by the fact that the occupation is developed inside or outside a building.

So it’s more common to see melanomas professional and administrative staff in non-graduate workers.

The use of tanning beds with penetrating ultraviolet rays has been associated with the onset of skin cancer, including melanoma.

The skin is the largest organ of the body. It protects the body temperature, sunlight, injury, and infection.

The skin has three main layers: the epidermis (upper or outer layer), dermis (lower or inner layer) and hypodermis (layer containing adipocytes).

When melanoma starts in the skin, the disease is called cutaneous melanoma. Melanoma can occur also in the eye and is called intraocular or ocular melanoma.
Types of skin cancer:

Melanoma. Skin cancer, Hydroxatone basal cell. – Skin cancer, squamous cell carcinoma.
Basal cell carcinoma: Type of skin cancer that originates in the basal cells. These are small round cells located at the bottom (or base) of the epidermis, which is the outermost layer of the skin.
Squamous cell carcinoma: Cancer that begins in squamous cells, which are thin, flat cells that look like fish scales. Squamous cells are found in the tissue that forms the surface of the skin, the lining of the hollow organs of the body, like the ducts of the respiratory and digestive systems.
Also called epidermoid carcinoma. Melanoma is more aggressive skin cancer basal cell skin cancer or squamous cell carcinoma.

Melanoma prevention and protection

To prevent melanoma, with the arrival of summer, to adopt a series of protective measures, such as the use of caps or hats, high protection creams and sun in a gradual and avoid the hours of more intense radiation (between 12:00 and 16:00).

Even under the umbrellas, the sun is harmful, and the mirror effect of the sand can induce more intense sunlight.

The human prototype with higher chances of contracting this disease is a woman between 40 and 45 years, skin and eyes that make intense, intermittent sun exposure in childhood, with burns in the infant stage, with a significant number of congenital nevus or atypical, and family history of melanoma.

Some tips to prevent the occurrence of melanoma are:

Sunbathing with adequate protection.
Use the right sunscreen and throughout the body.
Use the right dose by the manufacturer.
It should be noted at the time of the selection of filters both UVA and UVB rays.
Resorting if necessary to protect oral picture that slows the deficiencies and defects topical protection.

Treatment of melanoma

We need surgical removal of cancer cells and normal tissue of a cancer that goes around. The amount of normal tissue removed depends largely on how deep the melanoma has grown.

If the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes may also be necessary to remove them. Treatment with interferon after surgery may be useful for these patients.

Chemotherapy is often used to treat melanoma that has returned or has spread.
Medications such as interferon or interleukin, which boost the immune system to fight cancer may also serve to chemotherapy and surgery. This type of treatment is called immunotherapy. However, interferon has many side effects and can be difficult to tolerate.
You can use radiation treatments to relieve pain or discomfort caused by cancer that has spread.
Cancer that has spread elsewhere in the body are sometimes removed with surgery to relieve pain or discomfort.

In our Institute we have had good experiences in early cases with high frequency ozone as well as acupuncture. Similarly with the suspension of dairy intake and Sodium Bicarbonate vegetarian diets.

Patients with high-risk melanomas should consider participating in clinical trials are research studies of new drugs or other treatments. In all cases, check with your personal physician.