Riverview pioneers skin cancer treatment

A Wisconsin Rapids medical center took the national stage this week after becoming the first facility in the world to begin administering what some call a breakthrough skin cancer treatment.

University of Wisconsin Cancer Center Riverview's chief medical physicist, Yi Rong, presented the new process this week at the 51st annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine in Anaheim, Calif.

Skin Cancer link

Shane Anderson on Melanoma
Shane Anderson is a survivor of metastatic melanoma. He has been active in researching the disease and searching for the best treatment. He has been kind enough to contribute his thoughts in the hope of helping other patients.

Skin Cancer: How to reduce the risk of getting a second one

• How likely am I to get skin cancer ?
  Anyone can develop a skin cancer, and this risk increases with time. However some people are more likely to do so than others. They include those who have:
• Fair skin that burns easily
• Light coloured eyes: blue, grey or hazel
• Blonde or red hair
• Numerous freckles
• Outdoor work or heavy sun exposure in the past
• A history of skin cancer

read more at http://www.bad.org.uk/public/leaflets/skin_cancer.asp

Skin Cancer The Facts

There are three types of skin cancer: the two most common are Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinomas. They are easily treated and rarely fatal. The third and most dangerous is the malignant melanoma.
Skin cancer is the second most common cancer in the United Kingdom, with about 40,500 new cases each year, of which 6,000 are malignant melanomas. About 1,500 people die from melanomas in Britain every year.
By the year 2001, 1 in every 90 people in the US will get malignant melanoma. The UK figure is 1 in every 150-200

read more at http://www.skincancerfacts.org.uk/facts.asp

Basal cell carcinoma

Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer, and is estimated to affect about 1 million Americans each year. In fact, it is the most common of all cancers. Learn the symptoms of and treatments for this skin cancer, and what steps you can take to reduce your risk.

read more at http://www.skincancer.org/blogsection/skin-cancer/

Skin Cancer

Each year about 60,000 new cases of all types of skin cancer are diagnosed in the UK and more than 1,500 people die from malignant melanoma alone. Most types are fully curable - and easily prevented.

Read more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/cancer/typescancer_skin.shtml

Types of Skin Cancer

Types of skin cancer
There are two main types of skin cancer: basal cell carcinoma (also called rodent ulcer) and squamous cell carcinoma.
Together these cancers are known as non-melanoma skin cancer. More than 65,000 people in the UK are diagnosed each year with non-melanoma skin cancer.
Basal cell carcinoma
Squamous cell carcinoma
Rarer types of non-melanoma skin cancer
Malignant melanoma

read more at http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Cancertype/Skin