Experts have marked few well-known warning signals from the most dangerous types of skin cancer and many have no new or changing mole.
Dermatologists have detailed the other important red flags of dangerous melanoma, which few patients are aware, including changes in the nails and genitals.
It comes when shock that new research today revealed that the parts of the body are most likely to be sensitive to skin cancer, ranging between men and women.
According to the Cancer Research UK study, the majority of melanomas in men are found on the hull, including the back, chest and stomach – equivalent to around 3,700 cases per year.
In the meantime, women usually develop the lesions on their legs, from the hips to the ankles, which are good for 3,200 cases every year.
Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer, good for four out of five dead, but only one percent of the total cases.
Nevertheless, it is predicted that the disease will rise again this year – one fifth in just two years.
Below, experts MailOnline tell about the surprising skin changes that Sinister can be.
Signs of skin cancer vary from harmless to obvious, but experts warn that treating cases early is the key to ensure
Dark spots on genitals
Melanoma can present as dark lesions on the mucosa, which means the inside of the nose, mouth, vagina or anus, or the fingers and toes.
This subtype of aggressive cancer is extremely rare and is good for less than two percent of all melanoma cases.
Unlike other types of melanoma, mucosal melanoma is not influenced by sun exposure.
About half of the mucous membrane melanomas start in the head and neck, usually the nose, mouth, wind pipe or esophagus. Smoking, poorly fitting dentures and taking or breathing carcinogens all considerably worsen the risk of sarcomas in the mouth.
Most remaining 50 percent of melanomas start in the anus or rectal region and the female genitals. Spots in mucous membrane areas may not be melanomas, but rather squamous cell carcinomas.
Dr. Nayoung Lee, a dermatologist at Nyu Langone Health said: ‘Initially when it is early, it looks a bit like a whitish bump or ridge on the mucous membrane surface.
‘So as it grows, it starts to look more like a ulcer, it can look like it [like a fungal infection in appearance]Or other things. ‘
Although doctors have not designated the exact cause of mucosal membrane melanomas and non-melanoma cancer, some believe that they are linked to a viral tribe of Human Papillomavirus (HPV).
HPV tribes 16 and 18 are those who are considered a high risk and cause the vast majority of cervical cancers. But six and 11, lower risk rates, are more often associated with non-UV-linked skin cancer in the openings of our bodies.
Dr. Zaineb Makhzoumi, a dermatologist at the University of Maryland, also said: “The subtypes that cause a cervix cancer are not the same subtypes that cause skin cancer.”
Patients can sometimes not confuse melanoma cancer in the genital region with a sexually transmitted disease, but doctors want to drive home the fact that this type of cancer is not a sexually transmitted disease.
The dark lines can be a subungual melanoma – a rare type of skin cancer that develops under the nail
Subungual melanomas usually appear as a dark brown or black stripe. The nail can also become thicker, separated from the nail bed and split the center because of the cancer, which is good for about one in 30 melanoma.
Changes in fingernails
When the disease starts under the nail, it is medically known as subungual melanoma and usually presents it as stripes or bruises on the nail bed that do not heal or grow.
They usually appear as a dark brown or black stripe.
The nail can also become thicker, separated from the nail bed and split the center.
Another sign of the disease – which is good for about one in 30 melanoma cases – is whether pigmentation starts to crawl up and the skin discolours beyond the nail.
But if the thickness of the nail changes and is yellowed, it can be a different type of nail cancer called onychomatricom.
Black spots and stripes, however. Are not necessarily a sign of cancer. It can also be harmless pigmentation, medically known as longitudinal Melanonychia.
Dermatologist Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky, who goes on Instagram by @dermguru, said: ‘Not all dark stripes on the nail are dangerous, many people have a benign line on their nail called longitudinal melanonychia, which is completely normal.
“It is rather benign if it is lighter, it does not change color, it is found on multiple nails or you have a dark skin color.”
Earlier this month, Alastair Muir, 63, from Kinross, Scotland also warned the audience to pay attention to every change in their skin, even if it does not mean Mol, after he had a Schokkanker cancer diagnosis that has since spread to his leg and pelvis.
Gray or purple spots
According to the support of Macmillan Cancer, melanoma that has spread to parts of the skin far away From the original melanoma appears as sturdy or hard nodules called lumps.
However, it does not always seem raised and can look like a flat scar or stain. Usually these areas are gray or purple skin areas and can bleed them.
Earlier this month, a general practitioner from Kinross, Scotland, also warned the public to pay attention to every change in their skin, even if it does not mean Mol, after he was diagnosed with shock skin cancer that has since spread to his leg and pelvis.
Alastair Muir, 63, noticed a skin -colored lesion in 2018 and suspected it was a wart or verruca and tried to frozen it.
But a biopsy that was taken later that year revealed the devastating truth – it was in fact melanoma.
“Most people associate melanoma with pigmented moles that change or grow,” he said.
‘It is important for people to know that it is not always present that way.
“I think people should be aware that if you have something on your skin that changes or changes differently, it is worth checking it.”
Dry flaky spots
In rarer cases, dry scaly pieces of skin can also be a subtle sign of melanoma.
Dr. Saira George, a associate professor of dermatology at the University of Texas, said: ‘Dry skin plasters or rashes that are not better with the treatment, cause many symptoms or occur on unusual sites on the body where you have not had scaly where you had no scaly patches of just more than Run-Mill dry skin.
“But dry, flaky skin is a common presentation for many things and most dry, flaky skin is not skin cancer.”
More often than not, it can be a sign of non-melanome skin cancer-a group of cancers that slowly develop in the upper layers of the skin.
One, squamous cell carcinoma, is caused by an overproduction of squamous cells in the epidermis, the top layer of your skin.
In many cases, patients have rough, scaly spots or growths, sometimes with a crispy or bleeding surface.
Dr. Lee said, “They just feel flaky, so you can feel them more than they see.”
People who have a history of heavy sun exposure experience this kind of skin cancer most likely.
With all bad, sizzling sunburn, there is an increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma.
People with fair skin and people with light eyes who are more susceptible to sunburn are also more vulnerable.
More often than not, however, the condition is to cure when treated early. The survival percentage is even as high as 98 percent.
A rough plaster or pain that can indicate bleeding can indicate a different non-melanoma skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, which, like SCC, has a high chance of survival. However, people must treat it aggressively as soon as it is detected.
Dr. Lee added: “Depending on the location, they can get deeper into muscle and bone, so that they become problematic if they grow for a long period.”
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of cancer in general and the most common type of skin cancer more specifically.
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