What you really need to know about moles and melanoma
By: Jill R. Schofield and William A. Robinson
Contributors: Robinson, William A.
Series: A Johns Hopkins Press health book
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780801863936; 9780801863943
Subjects: Melanoma; Popular Works; Melanosis; Mole (Dermatology); Ouvrages de vulgarisation; Mélanome; Nevus; Popular works; Nævus
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Melanoma: Recognizing and Preventing It; title: What Is Malignant Melanoma?; title: The Structure of Skin; title: Melanocytes; title: What Is Cancer?; title: Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers; title: About Pigmented Lesions; title: Freckles; title: Seborrheic Keratoses; title: Lentigos; title: Nevi; title: What Causes Melanoma, and Why Are So Many People Getting It?; title: The Multiple Hit Theory; title: About Invasive Melanoma; title: The Rising Incidence of Melanoma; title: What Is Causing This "Epidemic" of Melanoma?; title: Do Genes Affect a Person's Chances of Developing Melanoma?; title: Skin Warning Signs; title: The Appearance of a Normal Mole; title: What to Watch For; title: Amelanotic Melanoma; title: Premalignant Lentigos; title: Who Can Help Monitor Moles?; title: What Is Your Risk? The Risk Factors for Melanoma; title: Changing Moles; title: Number of Moles; title: Atypical Moles; title: Congenital Moles; title: Intense, Intermittent Sun Exposure; title: Prior Severe Sunburns; title: Melanoma in a Close Relative; title: Personal History of Melanoma; title: Skin Type; title: Hair Color; title: Age; title: Gender; title: Suppression of the Immune System; title: Prior PUVA Treatments to the Skin; title: Xeroderma Pigmentosa; title: Atypical Mole Syndrome; title: Prevention, Early Detection, and Education; title: Simple Preventive Measures That Could Save Your Life; title: Save the Children; title: Early Detection; title: Education; title: Melanoma: Diagnosis and Treatment; title: Diagnosing and Treating the Primary Lesion; title: Removing the Primary Lesion; title: What the Pathologist Sees; title: Treating the Primary Lesion; title: Questions Patients Often Ask; title: Staging, Treatment Decisions, Prognosis, and Follow-Up; title: Staging; title: Testing and the Limits of Early Diagnosis; title: Treatment Decisions: What Research Studies Tell Us; title: Evaluation and Treatment of Regional Lymph Nodes at the Time of Diagnosis; title: Prognosis and Follow-Up; title: Adjuvant Therapy; title: Immunotherapy; title: Radiation Therapy; title: Chemotherapy; title: Vitamins and Diet; title: Changes in Lifestyle; title: Treating Advanced Melanoma; title: More about Metastases; title: Will Treatment Help?; title: Treating Regional Lymph Node Recurrence; title: In Transit Metastases; title: Treating Systemic Metastases; title: Surgical Removal of Metastases; title: The Treatment of Brain Metastases; title: New and Experimental Treatments; title: Alternative Treatments; title: Managing Pain and the End of Life; title: The Physician's Point of View; title: Taking Care of the Whole Patient; title: A Look at Hospices; title: Melanoma: Less Common Types and Melanoma Research; title: Unusual Forms of Melanoma; title: Noncutaneous Forms of Melanoma; title: Less Common Forms of Cutaneous Melanoma; title: Unusual Populations for Melanoma; title: What's New in Melanoma Research?; title: Laboratory Research in Melanoma; title: Clinical Research in Melanoma; title: Finding Out More; title: Guide to Resources for People with Cancer.