Will melanoma affect life expectancy?

Will melanoma affect life expectancy? Last year's hit movie If You Are the One 2 brought a lot of laughter to the Chinese people, and also a medical term, melanoma. In the movie, Xiangshan, played by Sun Honglei, suffered from the "incurable disease" malignant melanoma and gave up treatment. In this regard, experts said that not all melanomas are incurable. As long as they are discovered early and treated in time, melanomas are completely curable. Blindly giving up treatment is unscientific.

Does melanoma affect life expectancy?

Melanoma is a common tumor in Europe and America, and its incidence rate ranks fifth among all malignant tumors. The incidence rate in China and Asian countries is relatively low, about one in 100,000. Melanoma originates from melanocytes. Under normal circumstances, melanocytes are evenly distributed in our skin. If they divide and proliferate excessively and aggregate into clusters, they become melanin nevi, which we often call "moles". When this division and proliferation is out of control, it evolves into malignant melanoma.

Will melanoma kill you? Sun Honglei said in the movie, "No one in the world can cure this disease," so he chose not to treat it. Melanoma can be cured through early treatment. This is because melanoma grows horizontally in the epidermis in the early stage. As long as it is extensively removed and treated with adjuvant therapy, it will basically not metastasize, and the patient's survival rate is about 90%. At present, the treatments for melanoma include surgery, chemotherapy, biological therapy, and radiotherapy.

If treatment is abandoned early or delayed due to carelessness, melanoma will slowly enter the vertical growth phase and invade the dermis, which is rich in capillaries and lymphatic vessels. Melanoma cells may invade the blood vessels and lymphatic vessels and cause metastasis.

Will melanoma kill you? The answer depends on the situation. If you choose to actively treat it in the early stages of the disease instead of blindly giving up, then melanoma will not threaten your life. If you passively give up on yourself after you get sick, then even the gods cannot save you.