Skin Treatment

From benign to malignant (skin cancer), there are numerous of skin disease. They can affect people of all ages, and the treatment varies depending on the type of skin disease, age and health status of the patient. The location of the illness may also play a role in the choice of the treatment. For example, a skin disease developing on the facial area requires great precaution to avoid scar formation. Regardless of the area of the body where the condition occurs, it is not easy to ignore a skin disorder, especially when the extension of the disease makes it difficult to hide even with makeup.

Although there are plenty of skin treatments out there, it is often challenging to get rid of certain skin imperfections. In fact, even when effective, most skin treatments take a long time to show their effects. The problem becomes more worrisome if the condition does not respond to the treatment or leave scar on visible area such as the face. Fortunately, however, because of recent progress in medical field, skin scars can be successfully treated with topical applications. Large scars for which topical skin treatments cannot be used, cosmetic surgeries - plastic surgery, laser therapy or skin grafts - can be performed to repair the damage.

As stated above, skin treatments vary depending on the disease. For skin cancer, these following therapies are commonly used:

Skin Surgery: skin cancer diagnosed early can be completely cured by surgery. During the surgery, a surgeon dermatologist, after anesthetized the diseased skin locally, removes the cancerous tumor with a scalpel. Depending on the size, type and location of the cancer, he can either cauterize the wound or close it with stitches.

Radiation therapy : Radiation therapy is sometimes used to treat certain cancers of the skin in order to kill cancer cells. This therapeutic technique consists of using electromagnetic radiation. It is used mainly when it is difficult to proceed with surgery (due to the size of the tumor), or after surgery to kill cancer cells that may remain.

Cryosurgery : In the case of very small skin cancers or precancerous skin lesions, some dermatologists may use extreme cold (using liquid nitrogen) to destroy diseased tissue; this therapeutic procedure is called cryosurgery.

Topical chemotherapy : Sometimes anticancer drugs can be applied directly on the skin affected by cancer. In cancer of the skin, topical chemotherapy usually lasts several weeks. Topical chemotherapy is used mainly to treat non-melanoma skin cancer limited to the top layer of the skin.

Systemic chemotherapy: this form of cancer treatment consists of using strong chemicals (anticancer drugs) to target and damage cells that divide too quickly, the main characteristic of cancer cells. Once the drug is taken - either by infusion into a vein (intravenous - IV) or by mouth (oral route) - it travels through the bloodstream to cells all over the body. Systemic chemotherapy is used particularly when the cancer is at a metastatic stage (metastatic cancer).

Immunotherapy : Cancer and its treatment affect the body's immune system. Cancer immunotherapy is the fact of using therapeutic substances - such as interferon or interleukin - to stimulate the body's own immune system to attack and kill cancer cells.

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