Unusual Spots to Detect Melanoma Cancer

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To detect Melanoma Cancer in time is very important as well as difficult. The symptoms are very confusing and therefore this type of cancer is often left undetected and as a result is likely to have very dangerous consequences. The symptoms show at very unusual places and that is the reason too much attention is not given to them. Delay in detecting symptoms of Melanoma Cancer results in working out a treatment course for the patient.

Melanoma Cancer is not just about exposure of skin to harsh rays of sun. It’s a lot more than that. Doctors generally advice people to learn to self examine to detect this form of cancer. Symptoms generally show under nails, on the palms and soles of hands and feet respectively and in the scalp.

Appearance of brown or black streak in the nail of the thumb or big toe is sign of Melanoma Cancer. This spot, which is actually a sign of cancer, is often mistaken for a bruise or scar caused by some injury to the nail. But the opposite is also as much true that pigmented band within the nail plate is not always necessarily a sing of cancer. If this band does not disappear with time or goes on increasing, under such a situation it’s best to see a dermatologist and get the biopsy done.

Similarly scalp is also a place where symptoms are generally not detected easily as it is covered by hair. A mole in the scalp with has ragged, notched or blurred border with one half of it being different from the other half. One should self examine scalp with the help of hair dryer by parting hair and looking for lesions. If the patient notices bleeding moles in the scalp which have developed recently.

Other areas where symptoms can show are the eyes, the palms of the hands or the soles of the feet, or the mucosal tissue that forms lining the nose, mouth, genital organs, anus, urinary tract and esophagus.

These are not the places people generally expect any such dangerous symptoms to show and that is the reason why detecting Melanoma Cancer in time is not very common. And the result is cancer detected at an advanced stage is that much more complicated to treat.