The Treatment Of Melanoma

From the office of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life.

Melanoma is an extremely serious form of skin cancer, which begins in the cells that make melanin which produces skin pigment. Typically, these cells are found in the skin, although they also exist in the eyes, the digestive tract, the lymph nodes and other areas. Once found, a number of options are presented as treatment for melanoma. The path that you take is determined by a number of factors, including the staging of the cancer and your general health.

The suggested treatment for melanoma, like other cancers, is likely to follow the traditional route of slash, poison and/or burn. All of the treatments have serious side effects on the overall health of the patient and are, in too many cases, more dangerous than the disease they supposedly treat.

For most patients, the first treatment path explored is surgery, the slash mentioned above. When the tumor is small and localized, the surgery may be enough to deal with the cancer. However, in many cases, surgery will not be enough to cure the cancer completely. Melanoma is an extremely aggressive cancer and surgery is only effective if the cancer is caught before it spreads. So, often times, another treatment for melanoma is necessary. To learn how you can avoid surgery, read Cancer Free For Life.

Along with surgery, many physicians are also trained to suggest chemotherapy and radiation to deal with the cancerous cells. These two forms of treatment, poison and burn, are actually weapons designed to kill cells. The goal of traditional cancer treatment is to kill the cancer cells before it kills too many healthy cells and, thus, kills the patient.

Chemotherapy is a poison, with origins which can be traced back to mustard gas. Aside from killing cancerous cells, chemotherapy treatments also kill immune system cells. This opens up the patient to a variety of infections and diseases.

Radiation therapy is the burn mentioned above and is an incredibly ironic treatment, when applied to skin cancer, since it is widely believe that it was exposure to the radiation in sunlight which caused it in the first place. The form of radiation used in therapy is no less carcinogenic or dangerous than any other form of radiation.

Either of these, when used as a treatment for melanoma, are extremely dangerous and toxic routes. Through damage to the entire body of the patient, including the melanoma cells, these treatments are considered effective if they result in the shrinkage of the tumor.

The patient may still die of any great number of infections or illnesses, which would not have been fatal without these cancer treatments. Even if the patient dies of pneumonia, complicated by these therapies, the treatment of cancer can still be considered successful.

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