Can skin cancer be cured?

After suffering from skin cancer, people feel depressed because when they hear the word cancer, they feel that there is no cure. Is this really the case? What kind of disease is skin cancer? Can skin cancer be cured? In recent years, skin cancer has been prevalent, causing great harm to people's health. Let’s take a look at how to treat this type of skin cancer.

In fact, can skin cancer be cured? In our specific skin cancer treatment measures, we should pay more attention to the treatment methods for skin cancer. With this understanding, treatment can be based on the histological type of skin cancer on the body, combined with the specific anatomical site, patient age, gender, and general health status.

Local treatment: mainly local application, local compress and local injection. In the early years, 0.5% colchicine ointment was used for local application on tumors, with good results. In recent years, 5-Fu ointment and bleomycin ointment have also achieved good results. In terms of anatomical locations, attention should be paid to whether certain areas are prone to recurrence after surgery and whether certain areas can achieve the expected effects of the treatment plan. For example, areas around the eye sockets, around the nose, and around the ears have a high recurrence rate, so a treatment with a higher cure rate must be selected. Before performing surgical resection, one should consider the cosmetic appearance of the wound in the anatomical area and the skin function after resection. For example, the surgical healing of the raised areas of the face: nose, lips, cheeks, forehead, and helix will result in tightening scars, which is unacceptable.

Among skin cancers, basal cell carcinoma is the most common, accounting for more than 60%. The early manifestations of various skin cancers are mostly erythematous skin lesions accompanied by scaly desquamation or crust formation. It is not only difficult to distinguish their histological types by naked eye observation, but they are also easily confused with benign skin diseases such as psoriasis and eczema. Pathological examination is often required for a confirmed diagnosis. Whether surgery, radiotherapy or other treatment methods, they all have a good effect on skin cancer, with a cure rate of over 90%.

Skin cancer is not necessarily untreatable. There is still some hope that skin cancer can be cured. However, no matter what kind of disease it is, early detection and timely diagnosis and treatment after becoming ill are the fundamental guarantees to ensure that the disease is well controlled or cured early.