I need it for a paper due tomorrow. Details details details please.
2007-08-30 11:50:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
well actually my grandmother died of skin cancer, she got it from Ultraviolet Radiation, its the type of light that they use in tanning beds.
Skin cancer generally develops in the epidermis (the outermost layer of skin), so a tumor is usually clearly visible, but u can only get skin cancer from over exposing yourself to the sunlight or UV lights, she like to go to the beach alot not wearing any protective sun screen so that how she got it.
2007-08-30 11:58:20 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. Q 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What?!? You want details of my friends' and family's illness? I can answer the first part by saying that my uncle had skin cancer and after several years of wearing a special sleeve seems to be okay now. I really don't know the details because it would be rather rude for me to ask him, my family, details details details about his demise. I, on the other hand, am not so shy! Would you like to know about the excruciating pain when part of your ear is cut away because of a mole that grew on it? The joy of waiting by the mail unsure every day if the card is going to come back saying you are okay or if the dermatologist is going to call and tell you that it's cancer? Maybe you were looking for the personal details details details of having cancer. I can tell you about my mother's feelings when she was dying with two small children that she knew she'd never see grow up and could only hope that they might remember any small fact about her. Perhaps I could tell you about my dad who was a vibrant man who led large groups of his students down the Grand Canyon several times, a man who raised his children alone after his wife died, and how it felt for him after he found out he had cancer a second time and would never be able to see his children get married, never meet his grandchildren, never again sit on a summer day under his favorite tree drinking a beer and telling stories about his college days. Do you want that instead?
2007-08-30 23:50:21 · answer #2 · answered by Hallie 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My brother developed Melanoma on his face years after having been a real surfin' dude as a teen and not paying attention to protecting his skin properly. He went through lots of skin peels but no drug therapy that I'm aware of. Info is sketchy since we didn't live around each other at that time.
He is alive and healthy today.
His 24 yr old son failed to have a mole on his back examined way too long and was diagnosed with Stage II Melanoma because of the size of involvement. He had a lot of tissue removed (banana size) as well as sentinal lymph nodes removed in one surgery event. Thankfully, the cancer had not metastisized, however, he still had a year's worth of follow up drug treatment of Tamoxifen.
Now, 2 years from diagnosis he is remaining healthy.
Helluva time to be starting a paper...the day before it's due but Good Luck!
2007-08-30 19:15:36 · answer #3 · answered by autumlovr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a highly treatable form of cancer until it is in its advanced stages. I work with a teenage girl who has skin cancer due to tanning and she is preparing to undergo an operation to remove two moles from her shoulder blade in hopes that the cancer will be caught early enough and she may not have to go through chemotherapy.
2007-08-30 18:58:51 · answer #4 · answered by Ararodiel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandma had it, but was lucky and they caught it early. She had the cancer removed from her forearm, and they replaced the skin with skin from her thigh. The pain in her leg from where they took the graft was unbearable, she said. They removed the skin for the graft with a cheese-grater type tool. She is very self conscious about where they placed the graft, and refuses to show it to nearly anyone. She recently wore a long-sleeve shirt to Hawaii, because she was so ashamed of the graft.
2007-08-30 19:02:11 · answer #5 · answered by love 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my grandmother has it on her forehead. She grew up on the shore, and her mother died from it. It can spread like any other cancer. If found early it can be treated, my grandmother need to have it removed and have a skin graft to replace the missing skin.
2007-08-30 23:12:57 · answer #6 · answered by lindalbnj 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know five people who have skin cancer...no deaths from it
All five are males, four middle-aged, one elderly
One had it on cheek: removed
One had it on leg: removed
One had it on arm: removed
One had it on back: removed
One had it I don't know where...but removed.
One died from something else, a heart condition.
They just have to have their wives check them over weekly for more, plus go to the doctor annually for a big checkup, to be sure it doesn't return.
2007-08-30 19:00:18 · answer #7 · answered by embroidery fan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my aunt died of skin cancer. she was actually skin and bones when she died. back then they didn't have treatments like they did today or maybe she would have made it. she suffered tremendously with it. good luck with your paper.
2007-08-30 19:56:44 · answer #8 · answered by barb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there was a girl at school that found out a couple years ago she had cancer, but i don't think it was skin cancer, so...uh...nope, no one else i know of, sorry.
2007-08-30 18:57:34 · answer #9 · answered by je t'♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my grandpa got it and my aunt and they are both fine, touch wood. my grandpas been skin cancer free for almost 40 years.
2007-08-30 20:32:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋