Can pregnancy cause melanoma?

Pregnancy generally does not cause melanoma. Melanoma is a tumor produced by melanocytes in the skin and other organs. Skin melanoma manifests as pigmented skin lesions that undergo significant changes over months or years. Although its incidence is low, it is highly malignant, metastasizes early, and has a high mortality rate, so early diagnosis and early treatment are important. Malignant melanoma mostly occurs in adults, and cases of giant congenital pigmented nevi that develop into secondary cancers are more common in children.

What causes melanoma can be summarized as air pollution, extensive use of chemical cosmetics, lack of attention to moles on the feet and pubic area, abuse of estrogen drugs, immune deficiency, malignant transformation of benign melanoma plaques, etc. It is best to take some Chinese medicine such as ginseng essence ginsenoside Rh2 to resist fatigue, increase human immunity, inhibit cancer cell proliferation, and have a very good effect on the prevention of melanoma.

Melanoma is a common disease. In the late stage, melanoma can also lead to many malignant changes. So, what is the main treatment for melanoma? Let's learn about it from the following article.

1. Biopsy surgery for the treatment of melanoma is mainly for patients suspected of malignant melanoma. The lesion should be removed together with the surrounding 0.5cm to 1cm normal skin and subcutaneous fat for pathological examination. If it is confirmed to be malignant melanoma, the depth of infiltration will determine whether additional extensive resection is needed. Generally, incisional or forceps biopsy is not performed unless the melanoma lesion has ulcerated or the lesion is too large and one resection will cause disfigurement or disability and must be confirmed by pathology first. However, the incisional biopsy must be connected with radical surgery as close as possible.

2. The scope of excision of the primary lesion is also a treatment rule for melanoma. The old view that 5 cm of normal skin must be included when excising the lesion has been abandoned. Most melanoma tumor surgeons only excise 1 cm of normal skin outside the tumor edge for thin lesions with a thickness of ≤1 mm, and perform wide excision 3 cm to 5 cm away from the tumor edge for lesions with a thickness of more than 1 mm. Malignant melanoma located at the extremities often requires finger (toe) amputation.

To sum up: After listening to the above editor’s brief introduction on which methods are suitable for the treatment of melanoma, melanoma patients now have some understanding of which methods are suitable for the treatment of melanoma. Therefore, we remind melanoma patients to go to a regular dermatology hospital for examination and treatment in time, because only a regular dermatology hospital will be safer.