Melanoma
Aetiology
Risk Factors
Clinical Features
Investigations
Treatment
NOTE: Found uniformly around body, even in cavity
NOTE: Avoid manipulation, otherwise it will spread
Source
Mr Boyle 2014
- Sun
- Trauma (Burn)
- Chemicals
- Age
- Genetics
Risk Factors
- Moles (junctional)
- Bathing trunk nevus (giant hairy nevus)
- Dysplastic nevus syndrome (flat, irregular outline, sometimes dark)
- Hutchinson's freckle
- Immunosuppresion
Clinical Features
- Pigment variation
- Recent change (itch, bleed, enlarge)
- Irregular outline
- Raised
- Hutchinson's freckles
Investigations
- Chest x-ray
- Scan
- Lymphoscintigram
Treatment
- Surgery
- Stage/ level (<0.7mm depth = good prognosis)
- Wide excision (2.5cm radius)
- Nodes
- *** Radioresistant tumour
NOTE: Found uniformly around body, even in cavity
NOTE: Avoid manipulation, otherwise it will spread
Source
Mr Boyle 2014