- 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
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I disagree only because i think that removal of the mole would be in Bills best interest because there would be no chance of spreading.
i agree tis is the best option, radiation therapy not only kills off the bad cells but also the good cells
I agree, because his cancer has not spread to other organs so therefore it is best to just get the surgery.
CUT IT UP!
I dont agree because i think the surgery should be followed up with chemo just to be sure that the melanoma hasnt spread
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