Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Pennsylvania
Skin Cancer Information Posted: 10-27-03 20:21pm
Greetings,
i am currently in the process of writing
an advanced biology report for school. I
have chosen to write about skin cancer and
its affects on the body. I hope the
visitors of this forum can inform me about
this topic. More specifically, I was
wondering about the affects on the body of
skin cancer. In my research it informs
me that skin caner is a malignant cell
that keeps dividing and doesn't stop like
nomral cells. Why is it that normal
cells die periodically and cancer cells
don't? Does it invlolve a condition with
the nucleus of the cell caused by uv
radiation? Also, if cancer isn't found
and stopped right away, besides spreading
to the rest of the body, what affects does
cancer have on the skin? What causes
skin cancer to spread to the rest of the
body? Any information you can provide
will be greatly appriciated.
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texasholderhand
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Jan 2004 Posts: 4 Location: nebraska
Skin Cancer Information Posted: 01-22-04 16:39pm
In my family we carry a fatal skin cancer
a heredity form of melanoma it has killed
off my uncle at 29, my aunt at 40, my
other uncle at 54,my father at 55, my
cousin has it now and is treatment he is
25, my brother has had treatment for it
already he is 37, I am 38 and scared.
What I can tell you is that it
metastasices to move through the body.
It seems to get worse when air
born(surgery) it worsens with sunburns
and tanning booths. I dont know if you
can really do preventive measures with
heredity cancer. Stay out of the sun.
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purple333
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 1420 Location: Sydney
Melanoma Update Posted: 01-22-04 17:59pm
The university (like college) of newcastle
in new south wales, australia has recently
shown some positive results using (this
was found by accident - like all good
things) a direct injection of a flu(yes as
in a cold) virus into the melanoma &
it not only killed off the melanoma cells
but went on 7 found other cancer cells
that had not even been found yet &
killed them off too.
This is all very new but it might be worth
you contacting newcastle university (just
remember australia not uk!!.
