Treatment of Melanoma in Israel

Melanoma is a very dangerous form of skin cancer. This species is formed from skin pigment cells and is able to develop on any place of the skin. In the male population, the tumor is often found on the trunk (chest and back), the female half - on the lower limbs.

The tumor progresses from the melanocyte cells producing melanin and present in the skin, the eye membranes, the mucous membrane of the mouth, the nail cavity. Under the influence of some factors, melanocytes are able to rapidly divide and produce a brown color of melanin, due to which the cancerous formation, usually, is brown.

Similar color have both pigmented spots on the body, numerous papillomas, birthmarks, also containing a congestion of melanocytes. It is these formations that can be regenerated in melanoma with frequent traumatization, scratching, sunflow, with independent attempts to remove them by bandaging, moxibustion, etc.

Any person has on the body from 5 to 20 pigmented formations (birthmarks) and every year in the world in 7 people out of 100 000 mutation of these formations occurs in melanoma. But melanoma, like the formation of a dark brown color, can also appear on clean skin.

A serious symptom of skin melanoma is the absence of a pigmented spot on the hair. Mutants in melanoma spots will quickly grow and change color to reddish-pinkish, grayish color or white shade. Symptoms of the advanced stage of the disease progression are carding, blood discharge, pain, nucleation and formation in the immediate vicinity of the focus of newly formed pigment spots.

Melanoma metastasizes through arteries to other organs - bones, brain, lungs - and the aggressiveness of its development is different.

If a disease is suspected, melanoma treatment in Israel begins with an examination of the cancerous tumor (diameter, nature, color, presence of ulceration) and the rest of the skin, palpable lymph nodes, a patient is questioned about the detection dates and symptoms of a suspicious stain.

To determine the exact diagnosis, a skin biopsy is used-taking a sample of the epithelium under local anesthesia of its surface layers with subsequent microscopic examination, immune tests for the presence of cancer cells.

To search for tumor metastases, chest X-ray, CT, MRI and PET are used in the body, examination of the bone substance with radioactive exposure of the bones of the skeleton.

With a local category of melanoma, it is generally recommended that the focus of education, nearby externally healthy parts of the skin and metastases be detected, in cases where it permits their localization. With a significant prevalence of cutaneous removal the doctor can do skin implantation. Aggressive malignancy and accelerated spread of metastatic formations with secretions of blood cause joint treatment of melanoma in Israel.

Healing with chemical therapy is carried out at the late stages of cancer, which has developed on the lymph nodes. The chemical preparations are injected with a syringe into the limb, which is affected by a cancerous tumor, localizing their action in the problem area of the skin.

In the case of melanoma, metastasizing to the brain, the bone system and other organs use radiotherapy. Destroying the cancerous bodies by X-rays, it reduces the size of melanoma.

In case of spread of metastases, a new treatment for melanoma in Israel is used - biological therapy. It involves the use of medications that are identical to natural products (cytokine proteins) produced inside the body to fight infections. Insufficiency of the development of their own "melanoma killers" is supplemented by additional production of proteins in the laboratory and their inclusion in the immune system.

To identify and treat melanoma in Israel, the National Melanoma Institute was established, the world's largest clinical and research center developing advanced methods of cancer treatment, among which the unique drug Ipilimumab is the strongest stimulant for the production of T cells responsible for anticancer immunity.