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How to Spread the Melanoma Education and Skin Cancer Awareness

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How to Spread the Melanoma Education and Skin Cancer Awareness

Many people today live with the agony of melanoma or the most dangerous type of skin cancer. It is sad that most of melanoma victims never realize the danger when they first sight the first spot on their skin. Unfortunately, melanoma can appear in different shades of colors and sizes making it difficult for some people to notice what dangerous specs they carry on their body.

What is Melanoma?

Melanoma is a type of cancer that starts in the cells making the pigment melanin usually referred to as melanocytes. Melanoma occurs mostly on the skin but other occurrences have been found in the eye, intestines, and other parts of the body. It is the deadliest form of skin cancer. The cancerous growths can be initiated when DNA damages are caused to skin cells remain unrepaired. These damages can trigger mutational defects resulting in rapid multiply of the skin cells to develop into malignant tumors.

Melanoma can appear as a large, asymmetrical spot with an uneven color and irregular shape or as melanoma showing as an uneven color and irregular border which can be up to ½ in size. Some can have scaly features.

Causes of Melanoma cancer

Melanoma cancer is caused by combination of factors among which is genetic, environmental, excessive exposure to UV radiation from the sun, tanning lamps, and beds accounts for most of the causes.

Excessive sunbathing exposes the skin to Ultraviolet radiation which can have great effects on skin melanin. In tropical regions where the intensity of the sun is high, residents should be educated on the protective measures against melanoma cancer. If the skin is exposed to the rays of sunlight continuously for a long period of time, it can cause damages to the DNA which in turn damages the skin cells.

Creating Community Awareness

Across the nations of the globe, there are cases of melanoma cancer and other skin cancer. This can really be a serious issue in many poor communities. Basically, many people in these zones are very susceptible to skin cancer as a result of ignorance, poverty, and total lack of melanoma education. When the first signs appear, it is ignored which makes early help difficult. In some remote areas like part of Asia, Africa and the Caribbean regions, more melanoma education and skin cancer support are required to stem down the menace of this dreaded skin cancer.

Attention of Melanoma charity organizations must be drawn to these vulnerable areas for more support.

How to stem down the wave of Melanoma cancer

There are some steps to must be directed toward curbing the menace of skin cancer. Here are some of the required steps

  • World Health Organization should intensive its skin cancer education in all nations of the world and render more melanoma support to vulnerable regions
  • Government of nations should intensive efforts to spread the awareness of this most dangerous skin cancer and provide melanoma support to communities.
  • Melanoma charity melanoma education volunteer organizations should identify, locate and spread the awareness by creating more Melanoma events across the globe.

Many voluntary organizations like Impactmelanoma.org are showing great enthusiasm in trying to slow down, curb the spread and eradicate the global skin cancer problem. This they do by providing melanoma education, awareness, support, events, and fundraising channeled to stop the skin cancer menace globally

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