People who are diagnosed with melanoma are at a high risk of having it come back after the initial lesion is treated and removed. That is according to research published in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
Strong words of caution from one of the study’s authors, Dr. Daniel Coit of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, as quoted by Reuters: "If you've had a melanoma, you are at lifetime risk for developing a second or third primary melanoma, and it's absolutely incumbent on every single patient with melanoma to be rigorous in insisting on long-term contact with their dermatologist."
A primary melanoma is one that develops anew as compared to tumors that spread from an existing site.
Summary of the research available here.
1. Why doesn't anyone tell people how common wart remover...and it is 17% salycidic acid (which is a stronger form of common aspirin made from the bark of a willow tree) kills and removes tiny forms of skin cancers such as a tiny basal cell?
I never have heard one doctor tell people that and so help me I feel quite certain I even killed a tiny melanoma on my face with it, too.
I had a very dark ...and I mean very dark tiny flat spot appear out of nowhere on my front upper right face cheek one day. I thought how could it appear instantly.
I painted a tiny bit of wart remover on it for about 2 or 3 days and the thing dried up and peeled off. The skin underneath it was raw like a bad burn.
The salycidic acid killed the cancer but not the healthy tissue.
I had gone to a doctor some years earlier for a tiny basal cell and I have a monster scar on my arm. What a disgusting mistake...the guy sent the specimin to a lab that never told him it he even got all the cancer.
All I needed was just a tiny bit of wart remover. It it is cancer it dries up and dies pretty quick. It it is healthy mole tissue it will not die quickly.
I got rid of what may have been a tiny squamish one on my hand too.
It went deep and was very tiny and strange looking in it looked like how paint infiltrates water...like you could see some of it below the skin layer as it was just beginning to spread in erratic shapes.
That time too..the salycidic acid killed the cancer and made a little tiny hole in my hand...but never harmed the healthy tissues.
I have a friend who is married to an anesthesiologist and that is how I learned that a little acid does the trick.
Why won't the AMA tell people to use it? It doesn't hurt moles at all.
It is like so few doctors will tell people with cronic ear infections that common vinegar will cure outer ear infections like swimmers ear. The acid eats away at a common ear fungus that causes the ear to itch, usually after getting wet, too.
God gave us so many marvelous miracle cures, some are so simple and inexpensive...we all must share the knowledge when we have one that can help others.
+Robbie R. Kidwell
Posted at 3:17PM on Dec 3rd 2005 by Ms. Robbie R. Kidwell