Can skin cancer kill you?

Nowadays, the incidence of cancer is quite high, and the mortality rate is even higher. Among the many deaths, cancer is the number one killer. Everyone is afraid of cancer. Cancer can grow in any organ of the human body. If it grows in the lungs, it is called lung cancer. If it grows on the skin, it is called skin cancer. The incidence of skin cancer is very low in China, but it is quite high in some Western countries, so people don't know much about it.

In its early stages, skin cancer looks like psoriasis or eczema, so many people tend to treat skin cancer as a benign skin disease, delaying the disease. This requires patients to be vigilant, aware that skin cancer can also develop, and to ensure early detection and early treatment. Can adopt the combination of Chinese and Western medicine treatment.

The diagnosis of skin cancer relies on biopsy, but it requires the diagnostician to have sufficient experience to identify suspected malignant lesions. The following situations are highly suspected early malignant lesions: ① Skin ulcers that do not heal for a long time or come and go or have a small amount of bleeding; ② Any solar keratosis with bleeding, ulceration or asymmetric nodules; ③ Skin or old scars that have been exposed to radiation in the past, or ulcers or nodules in the sinus tract; ④ Red skin scars that do not fade for a long time and show mild erosion on them should be alert to the possibility of carcinoma in situ.

For smaller lesions, multiple excisional biopsies should be performed, achieving both diagnosis and treatment at one stroke. For larger lesions, especially those that require excision of 2 to 3 mm of normal skin outside the lesion edge to meet the treatment requirements, if the defect is too large and causes cosmetic defects, forceps or incisional biopsy should be performed, remembering to include the proximal edge of the lesion.

To prevent the occurrence of skin cancer, the first thing is to avoid long-term contact with harmful chemicals such as asphalt, tar, arsenic, benzopyrene, etc. in daily life and work. These chemicals are highly carcinogenic.

Skin cancer is generally caused by bad living habits. The treatment of skin cancer is not difficult. In the early stages, it can be scraped off with some advanced medical equipment, and then combined with diet adjustments, the patient can recover quickly. Many skin cancer patients are worried that they will die from skin cancer. The cure rate of early skin cancer can generally reach 90%.