How is melanoma diagnosed and treated? Treatment methods for different types of melanoma

Melanoma often manifests as color changes on the skin surface, which is a very important way to detect the disease early. However, due to moles and other benign color changes on our body surface, it is easy to confuse the final diagnosis results, resulting in a decrease in the diagnosis rate of melanoma. Therefore, the diagnosis of melanoma now requires multiple tests to ultimately confirm the disease.

So how is melanoma diagnosed and treated?

1. Localized melanoma

Generally speaking, the treatment for melanoma is surgical resection. During the surgical resection, if there is no primary melanoma around the lymph nodes, only the area with melanoma needs to be removed, which is called localized melanoma.

2. Regional melanoma

During lymph node removal surgery, if the lymph nodes surrounding the melanoma test positive, it is called regional melanoma and needs to be completely removed to prevent the spread of melanoma.

3. Discoloration and damage

Pay special attention to certain areas where discoloration occurs, mainly observing from the thickness, size, and color. If you find that it has obviously deepened and enlarged, you should consider whether it is melanoma. You can also look at the surface of the skin where the change occurs. If you find that there is peeling, damage, or rough bleeding, you should be alert. Generally speaking, melanocytoma is composed of dermal cells and melanocytes in the human body. Many melanomas are caused by repeated friction and damage to melanocytes, which lead to mutations, causing benign melanocytes to turn into melanomas. Surgical resection is the standard method for treating melanoma. Before surgery, be sure to check the surrounding skin for changes and lymph node lesions, because any different results may lead to changes in the treatment plan. When performing surgery, you should also consider the scope of the melanoma circumcision and the clearance of regional lymph nodes after resection.

Kind tips

Melanoma is very harmful, and its main treatment is surgery, which leads to a high probability of increased recurrence and metastasis of melanoma after treatment. At this time, we can also use chemotherapy and radiotherapy for adjuvant treatment. Compared with chemotherapy alone for melanoma, this combined adjuvant treatment method can improve the treatment effect and is currently the main treatment method. However, some elderly patients may not be able to withstand chemotherapy and radiotherapy due to their physical conditions. At this time, we can also use traditional Chinese medicine to provide postoperative treatment for the elderly.