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Its been around a long time. In modern Western medicine Skin Cancer was first identified as a disease by a French physician called René Laennec. He gave a lecture in 1804 and published in 1806. Apparently he also gave it the name Melanoma.
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer and - interestingly - it can be detected by smell. This finding was presented at the 236th meeting of the American Chemical Society and hopefully will lead to development of new methods of detection.
Skin cancers can be identified using the following (from scumdoctor ref below)
The following are skin cancer warning signs that a person should look for:
- Sudden appearance of skin growth
- Increase in size, or change in color
- Irregularities in the shape and border
- A growth that continues to itch, crust, ulcerate or bleed
- An open wound that does not heal
The following are the warning signs.
- Asymmetry -- The moles that are symmetrical are harmless. The malignant moles are usually shaped irregular. One can draw a line in the center and observe. If it is identical on both sides, then it is regular. If it is not identical, then it is irregular.
- Borders -- Malignant melanomas have irregular edges.
- Color variation -- Spots of different colors such as brown, black, blue, red or white areas within the mole is an indication that this could be malignant.
- Diameter -- Diameter of the mole is generally more than 1/4 inch.
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Melanoma (skin cancer) was first identified as a disease by French physician, René Laennec who talked about it in a lecture in 1804. It is believed he also gave the disease its name. Laennec findings were published in 1806.
The first person to have actually operated on a skin cancer lesion was Scottish anatomist and surgeon John Hunter in 1787. Hunter didn’t know what it was although he said that it looked like a “cancerous fungous excrescence” – translated to “cancerous fungus”. Interestingly, this tissue was so well preserved, scientists were able to examine it in 1968 and it was confirmed as a melanoma.
In 1840, Samuel Cooper reported that melanoma was mostly untreatable during the advanced stage. This is a situation that has remained more or less true today.
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