How to spot bad mole?

Written by Aleksandr Kavokin, MD/PhD


How to spot malignant mole?

This morning you took a bath. The warm water feels so nice duringrepparttar cold winter day. There was some funny skin itching on you back. You looked inrepparttar 114501 mirror, turned this way , that way. There is small mole on your back You remember this spot had been there for years, since childhood. Did this spot get that strange itching?

Recently you have heardrepparttar 114502 news that there are more than 50000 of new melanoma cases every year. This number grows 3% a year.

What is going on? Is this small spot on you back went out of control?

Several types of skin tumors exist. Many are slow growers. Many give rare metastasis. Simple removal cure majority of skin tumors.

Melanoma brings troubles big time.

Melanos = black, oma = tumor.

You can detect melanoma by self-exam. Skin cancers show themselves much easier than any other types of cancer.

Inrepparttar 114503 same time you can cure melanoma by simple surgical resection. However, catch this tumor in early stage. Late stage metastasize. Surgeon can not cut off every metastasis in your body.

There are numerous sites dedicated to melanoma self-exam. Just type inrepparttar 114504 word "melanoma" into any search engine. Follow instructions.

Fair skin people have more chances of getting melanoma. However, dark skin people develop melanoma too.

Everybody has moles. Women even use moles to charm. How to find if your mole became dangerous?

Dangerous signs include ABCD:

Asymmetry

Border

Color

Diameter

A- asymmetry. Suspicious mole does not look like a round or oval blot. Often, early melanoma looks rather like a blot with an odd shape.

B- borders. Borders become irregular, uneven, fuzzy. The edges ofrepparttar 114505 blots become notched.

C- color. Color of normal mole should be more or less homogenous. Change in color is very suspicious . There are shades of brown, black, tan, red. Mottled color is suspicious.

D- diameter. Change in diameter is suspicious too. Mole that is bigger than 6 mm is suspicious. Everybody compares 6 mm to a pencil eraser (though few people actually use it extensively). Just to get idea aboutrepparttar 114506 borderline size.

Besides ABCD there could be other signs of dangerous mole:

E - enlargement and elevation overrepparttar 114507 time

Also worrisome signs include easy bleeding and erythema (redness) aroundrepparttar 114508 mole.

Breast Cancer The Cure

Written by Gerald Armstrong


You have my permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long asrepparttar bylines are included. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated.

Breast Cancer The Cure

There is no known cure for breast cancer. More than 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year worldwide. Scientists don't know why most women get breast cancer, yet breast cancer isrepparttar 114500 most frequent tumor found in womenrepparttar 114501 world over. A woman who dies of breast cancer is robbed of an average of nearly 20 years of her life. Breast cancer knows no social boundaries. It’s a disease that can affect anyone. Some prominent women who’s lives that have been touched by breast cancer include Jill Eikenberry actress age 52; Peggy Fleming age 49 figure skater; Kate Jackson age 50 (Charlies Angels); Olivia Newton-John age 50 actress singer; Nancy Reagan age 77 former first lady; Melissa Etheridge age 43 singer; andrepparttar 114502 beautiful Suzanne Summers actress. These high rates of breast cancer are not acceptable torepparttar 114503 women ofrepparttar 114504 world and must be met with scientific research that provides results.

Despite over a decade of research, and more than $1.7 billion spent, hundereds of women worldwide are dying from breast cancer every day. Yet doctors don’t know how breast cancer starts or how to cure it. Doctors are still approaching treatment for breast cancer inrepparttar 114505 same old fashioned ways: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Barbarick treatments…And scientists keep doingrepparttar 114506 same old redundant research that’s simply not working. It doesn’t have to be that way. Gen Cells Cures is a scientific biotechnology company that is focused on a cure for breast cancer. The company is dedicated to curing breast cancer before it’s too late for you. We’re not interested in a cure in five, ten, or twenty years from now. We want your cure for breast cancer within a year or two. We don’t want you to have to under go surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or take toxic drugs.

Why Gen Cells Cures? You can searchrepparttar 114507 medical journals; you can searchrepparttar 114508 internet until your blue inrepparttar 114509 face. You will findrepparttar 114510 same old news which is no new news about breast cancer research and treatments. Breast cancer research is locked up in a black whole. Gen Cells Cures is approachingrepparttar 114511 cure for breast cancer from different angles and using tomorrow’s scientific technologies today. Our expertise is in stem cell research and genomics. Malfunctioning stem cells have already been linked torepparttar 114512 development of breast cancer. We’re not talking about using generic stem cells from an egg and sperm cell. There is no genetic match for you withrepparttar 114513 politically controversial generic stem cells that are always inrepparttar 114514 news. The isolation of cancer stem cells, coupled with our understanding of genetic mutations causing cancer, and our knowledge of genomics will result in ways to eliminate cancer cells while sparing normal breast tissues.

Genetics and Breast Cancer

People will tell you to accept what you can’t change…Your genetics, your genes,repparttar 114515 genes your mother and father handed you when you were born that came with their particular genetic make-up. Most inherited cases of breast cancer have been associated with two genes: BRCA1 and BRCA2. The past five years has been a period of unparalleled discovery inrepparttar 114516 field of genetics, genomics, and stem cell research, but these discoveries are not being applied to breast cancer treatments. A job that Gen Cells Cures definitely wants to get our hands dirty in. Recently researchers have found that by blocking a gene called beta1-integrinrepparttar 114517 growth of tumor cells can be stopped. When this gene was removedrepparttar 114518 tumor cells quit growing. You don’t have to acceptrepparttar 114519 genes that you were given at birth. Gen Cells Cures will be able to manipulate your genes to cure your breast cancer. Our Cancer Stem Cell and Genomics Program will bring togetherrepparttar 114520 top scientific minds inrepparttar 114521 world under one tin roof to maximizerepparttar 114522 use of diverse approaches torepparttar 114523 understanding of cancer genomics fused with stem cell solutions. Gen Cells Cures isn’t looking for a multi-million dollar biomedical research center likerepparttar 114524 Stowers Institute in Kansas City, which is a medical center to be admired. A rented tin shack will do just fine. Of course, we would accept hand-me down michroscopes fromrepparttar 114525 Stoweres (billionaires who bought their own multi-million dollar biomedical research center) if they would be gracious enough to grant them to us or we would accept a small primerepparttar 114526 pump check to move forward with our research. The Stowerses and allrepparttar 114527 scientists fromrepparttar 114528 Stowers Institute have an open invitation to visit our lab inrepparttar 114529 Caribbean. What we are looking for is a cure for breast cancer to stoprepparttar 114530 humiliation, pain and suffering this menace to society causes millions of women and thousands of men worldwide, and not a new biomedical center… Every dollar invested with us goes into pure medical research and equipment. The same offer goes out to allrepparttar 114531 millionaires and especiallyrepparttar 114532 billionaires ofrepparttar 114533 world. People that come to mind are: Paul Allen, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jon Huntsman, William and Alice Goodman, Ann Lurie, Jamie and Karen Moyer, Harold C. Simmons, Alfred Mann, Sumner M. Redstone, Michael Milton andrepparttar 114534 Palm beach billionaires, there are simply too many to mention. The combined wealth ofrepparttar 114535 three Microsoft billionaires alone is more than ten timesrepparttar 114536 amount spent byrepparttar 114537 U.S. Federal Government on research to fight cancer and other deadly diseases. We know we’re inrepparttar 114538 wrong business to become billionaires ourselves. This kind of biotechnology has never produced even one billionaire. It’srepparttar 114539 cure for breast cancer that we want. Simply putrepparttar 114540 cancer research organizations are fundingrepparttar 114541 wrong researchers. It’s time to go outsiderepparttar 114542 normal research channels. Do something different. The same story year after year after year and no cure. These unmotivated researchers just aren’t getting results. Let someone else have a shot at it. It’s time to try something new and different. A different approach. There are races forrepparttar 114543 cure, golf tournaments forrepparttar 114544 cure, there are walks forrepparttar 114545 cure, there are foundations forrepparttar 114546 cure. These foundations have been fundingrepparttar 114547 same ineffective research for more than twenty years now. These foundations have been betting onrepparttar 114548 wrong horse. Joiningrepparttar 114549 crusade won’t help ifrepparttar 114550 research being done doesn’t take on a twenty-first century scientific approach. It’s been time to move forward scientifically for five years now. But today’s breast cancer researchers are stuck in a twentieth century mind-set. The Excuse is someday we’ll findrepparttar 114551 cure, but someday doesn’t help today’s victims of breast cancer. We need top notch scientific action today.

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