melanoma

Bill can choose three treatments for melanoma. First he could do which would be stage 1 through 3. if i were Billl i would choose treatment 2. He will be betetr off. In stage 2 the mole or affection is surgically removed. Giving you an 80% chance.I decided to choose this ation because i think you are better off skipping stage one because you will get a better end result with stage 2.


source.http://www.webmd.com/melanoma-skin-cancer/melanoma-guide/skin-cancer-melanoma-treatment-overview

part 2 =D

Three treatments that Bill should choose are surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy.

I think Bill should have the melanoma removed through surgery, because it is in one of the earlier stages and only the dermis is affected.

Blog Assignment

1) Three options for Bill are to undergo radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or excisional surgery.

2)I believe Bill should get excisional surgery done to remove the cancer. Since the cancer has only spread to the dermis and not any lymph nodes, muscles, or organ tissues. This option is less damaging to his health and much less risky. He should keep a eye on the infected area and get it checked out by his doctor to make sure nothing comes back. If something shows up again then I would suggest chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

1.) Bill could choose from three options:
-Surgery
-Chemotherapy
-Radiation therapy

2.) I think Bill should have the melanoma removed through surgery, because it is in one of the earlier stages and only the dermis is affected. Then to ensure that any of the melanoma that may of spread is killed he should undergo sessions of chemotherapy.

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1) Realistically, Bill only has three options to choose from when it comes to removing the melanoma from his body.

• Excisional surgery - a procedure in which the cancerous tissues are cut away from nearby healthy tissue, thereby preventing the cancer from spreading any further.
• Chemotherapy - a form of treatment in which the patient is given "anti-cancer" medication that circulates the body destroying any cancerous cells (as well as healthy cells) in an effort to control the spread. This treatment results in losing hair and becoming ill easily.
• Mohs Micrographic surgery - a procedure where the attending doctor cuts away visible melanoma spots and examines the removed tissue until no cancer cells are seen. When no cells are found, the wound is treated.

2) I would elect Bill go under excisional surgery, followed by moderate chemotherapy. A two-pronged attack on the melanoma would be more effective than merely using one or the other. Better to take the extra step and ensure the cancer is gone than wait for it to come back.

part two

1.) Three treatments that Bill could choose are surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy.

2.) The treatment i think Bill should get is surgery. I think he should get surgery because it seems like it is the easiest procedure to do. The surgeon just has to cut the tumor from skin in thin layers, i find it is the most logical thing to do. For Bill's situation i would not chose radiation or chemotherapy because you are expose to high energy x-rays directly in the skin and chemotherapy uses drugs that goes into the bloodstream which cause many different side effects.

Melanoma...part 2

*Three treatments tha Bill could choose are:
-Surgery
-Chemotherapy
-Radiation Therephy

*One treatment that I think Bill should choose is Surgery. To me it is easier because you have to cut the tumor from skin in thin layers, i find it less risky because you just have to cut the tumor, but in Radiation you are expose to high energy x-rays directly in the skin and in chemostherapy you use drugs that goes to the bloodstream.

Melanoma

1. Bill can choose to use surgery, radiation, or biochemotherapy to treat his melanoma.
2.Bill should have the mole surgically removed because it will stop the spread of melanoma all together, after he gets it removed i think he should use biochemotherapy to make sure the whole disease is killed.

blog assignment

1. bill could choose from the following.......
-Surgery
- Adjuvant treatment
- Radiation
2. Bill should have his mole surgically removed because surgery is often necessary to reduce the risk of recurrence. Also it is the most accurate way to make sure that the mole goes away. Maybe to be on the safe side, bill could go for a check up time to time, and if needed he can go through radiation at that time to be safe.

Melanoma blog assigment

1. Bill can choose between either tumor removal sugery, chemotherapy, or radiation.
2. I personally think that Bill should get complete surgical removal of his mole, as well as the sentinel lymph node biopsy because it is the most successful and the most common treatment for melanoma.

Melanoma

bill has been diagnosed with a benign tumor, these tumors aren't really a big deal they range of types 0 to 1 in skin cancers level chart. But since some mutation in gene coding could possibly trigger a high risk of that tumor to spread and become more deadly your better off removing the tumor. bill has three choices he can choose the following

Surgery - this is the most common form of tumor. All it is a basic excision that cuts the tumor thus removing the threat. However for melanoma stages II and III the lymph nodes will have to be removed. this is the most successful way to remove the tumor but its possible you may get an infection even though the tumor is laready removed.

Cryosurgery - Cryosurgery is just the freezing of the tumor which will simply just kill off the cancer cells.but the cons outweigh the pros this time. this form of surgery using liquid nitrogen can disrupt the flow of urine and possibly reduce male fertility

Radiation Therapy - X rays are used to kill off cancer cells,its the equal to that of an excision but this emits rays that don't even cut any tumors. the negative aspect to this therapy is that it also will kill off your good cells not just the bad cells.

In conclusion i think bill should just receive a basic excision of the tumor. Any one of these treatments can be used but this method has less cons and more pros. Cryosurgery can reduce Bills fertility and disrupt the flow in his urinary tract. Radiation Therapy can also kill Bills good cells. So the excision is the best out of the three options to remove Bills benign tumor.

CITATIONS:

http://www.umm.edu/skincancer/treatmen.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benign_tumor

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_4X_Treatment_of_Melanoma_Skin_Cancer_by_Stage_50.asp

Melanoma Treatment

• Chemotherapy kills rapidly dividing cells. Cancer cells often multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Cancer cells are also less able to recover from the toxic effects of chemotherapy than can normal cells. Normal cells that divide rapidly, such as hair or blood cells, are also killed by chemotherapy. This results in common side effects such as hair falling out and blood counts dropping.
• Radiation therapy is a useful tool for treating cancer because cancer cells are growing in the body more rapidly than many normal cells around them, and radiation therapy preferentially treats more rapidly dividing cells. Radiation therapy effectively treats many kinds of cancers.
• Complete surgical removal (excision) is the most successful and the most common treatment for melanoma. The lymph nodes may also need to be removed (lymphadenectomy) in stages II and III melanoma.
  Metastatic melanoma is also treated with surgery to remove the primary melanoma and cancer from nearby tissue or lymph nodes.

If I were to choose a treatment for Bill I think that surgery would be most affective for his stage of melanoma. If the cancer is just showing up on just the skin, then it hasn't spread yet to other parts of the body and therefor chemotherapy or radiation would not be necessary.

http://www.webmd.com/melanoma-skin-cancer/melanoma-guide/skin-cancer-melanoma-surgery

Melanoma Part 2- Treatment Options

Some of the possible treatments of melanoma for Bill to consider are tumor removal surgery, chemotherapy, and immumotherapy.

One of the most suggested surgery treatments for melanoma inlvolves a sentinel lymph node biopsy and tumor removal at the same time. When the doctor or surgeon cuts out the tumor, they will also remove the surrounding lymph nodes to ensure that the cancer will not spread to the nearby areas of the skin. After surgery, small scars can be covered with different types of cosmetics, while larger scars may be concealed with skin grafts.

Another type of treatment for melanoma is chemotherapy, which includes different types of drug therapies and usually a combination of several drugs. This kind of treatment is limited for melanoma because currently there are only a few drugs that are approved by the FDA. Chemotherapy for melanoma is still being researched.

Immunotherapy is intended to stimulate the immune system so that it reacts more strongly against a patient's melanoma cells. This may destroy the cancer or just slow its progression. Several vaccines are viewed as promising. However, these newly-developed treatments are still being tested and only some have shown success in clinical trials.

Based on my research, I would have to conlcude that the most benefitial treatment for Bill's melanoma is surgical removal of his tumor, along with the sentinel lymph node biopsy. This treatment is a serious step for Bill, but it will ensure that the cancer is gone and the lynph nodes in the area surrounding the tumor are also removed. Chemotherapy and immunotherapy can be an alternative for Bill if he does not wish to undergo surgery, however, these treatments are not always successful because they are newer and drugs are still being researched.