Skin Cancer Therapy

Question: How can a Romanian citizen find help with medical bills that deal with skin cancer therapy.? This person has no money for laser treatments.

Answer: If you are in Romania, than contact the Romanian Cancer League. They may be able to help: http://www.romaniancancerleague.org/ http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/defaul…

Question: is physical therapy ultrasound contraindicated in skin cancer? I have a frozen shoulder and skin cancer. Is the ultrasound used in physical therapy contraindicated to treat my aching shoulder? Please help. Thanks.

Answer: Yes, it is contraindicated with a history of skin cancer. Some have argued that this contradindication is based only on theory and not on hard evidence, but the fact is that we don't have enough information yet. If you skin cancer was in the remote past and it was a basal carcinoma as opposed to a malignant melanoma, you might be able to get around it by having your dermatologist review your case. But if you had malignant melanoma, I wouldn't mess around with it. Truthfully, ultrasound has been found to be of no theraputic value in it's ability to increase range of motion and it's effectiveness in frozen shoulder has not been described. It would be a waste of money, in my opinion. There is SOME evidence for laser, but the studies are weak and are only compared to placebo and not other forms of treatment.

Question: how to cure a skin cancer (CBC) using natural therapy (located on the left ear)? I tried an antioxidant skin cream( Perrin's product)-still trying!-in addition with fucoidan, yucca, cordyceps...Old subject !

Answer: Google it.

Question: skin cancer - validity of alternative therapies? dermatologist wants to MOHS, I don't want surgery. So many alternatives, don't know which to research or which might be best option.

Answer: I have had 2 melonmias and was lucky to find them in time. MOHS surgury is one option where they cut ,look and keep cutting until clear margins are obtained. I chose the wide excision method and got clear margins on one. had to have glands removed on the other.

Question: What are the most common ways to reduce skin reaction during radiation treatments for cancer? During radiation therapy treatment, what are some ways that the therapists minimize skin reactions?

Answer: Don't know where your radiation is aimed at, but mine was skull and I didn't really change anything. I used my regular shampoo and conditioner, just gently rubbed my hand over the area. I used my face moisturizer on the area, just not into the incision area because it wasn't healed yet. Nurse told me I could use mederma to soften the scar area, just not right before my treatment. My doc just told me not to burn it with the hair dryer or scrape a brush over it.

Question: I have melanoma Skin Cancer... I think. here's a picture of my Possible Cancer Mole.? http://i34.tinypic.com/232lw4.jpg I've had this for almost about 3 years I think. maybe almost four years. I use to go to the pool a lot and sometimes I were sunscreens. I don't know.. maybe I missed some spot. But now I'm really wondering if I have Melanoma Skin cancer and I'm also wondering if there's a chance if I'm going to die.. And do I have to go through any therapy to get rid of this? Here's the story, it started growing a lot this year and it's been itching all of a sudden. And the mole is almost an inch wide. I shave. could it cause it. And inside my leg around the mole feels a bit rougher than the other side behind my left leg (I have the mole behind my upper leg). And my big sister has the same thing. It looks bruised and bloody like too. Can someone that knows a lot about Melanoma reply to this cause I can't handle the worries anymore.

Answer: Yes go see a doctor my step dad has a mole like that on his back and its cancerious. I suggest getting treatments and doing as much as you can for it

Question: How do you beat breast, colon, skin, & prostate cancers? Can you please give me some help here. I need this information for a paper. I tried googleing it but nothing comes up. Can you please tell me like is there a therapy? treatment? vaccine? and also please put down a source of info Thanks

Answer: If you are interested in what conventional medicine has to say on the matter I believe this site: http://www.medicinenet.com/cancer/articl… is useful for you. It contains sections on cancer basics as well as specific cancer diseases.

Question: Will darkened skinned due to radiation theraphy gets back to its former shade? I have breast cancer and undergoing radiation therapy.My skin around the surgical wound areas and underarm is totally dark now and I find it uncomfortable to wear sleeveless clothing. Please help.

Answer: For me it took a couple of months after the treatment ended, for the color of my skin to back to normal.

Question: Can someone please recommend a light therapy box/lamp for seasonal affective disorder(SAD)? Can someone please recommend (first hand knowledge please) a light therapy box/lamp, that I can use on my desk while I'm working? I'm struggling terribly this winter with what I believe to be SAD. My sister recommends tanning, but I have very fair skin and have heard this causes skin cancer. Anyway, I've heard some light therapy devices emit a bad odor. I am very sensitive to smells, so this would be a problem for me. I'd like a unit for under $150 but would be willing to pay more for one with a great recommendation. Thanks!

Answer: TRY E BAY

Question: Cancer treatments which disrupt the function of folic acid? Cancer treatments which disrupt the function of folic acid have significant side effects, since this therapy also affects the growth of such rapidly dividing tissues as all of the following, except: a) Skin cells. b) Red and white blood cells. c) Nerve tissue. d) Sperm. e) All of these cell types are affected by this therapy.

Answer: c) Nerve tissue, which is not rapidly dividing

Question: Do you believe McCain can withstand the stress of a general election or the Presidency? He's old (age 71) and obsessed with endless war. McCain himself says: "I'm older than dirt and got more scars than Frankenstein." Besides his age, McCain has lasting physical problems from his time as a POW. The two broken arms and broken knee he sustained in his 1967 plane crash went largely untreated for five years and bother him still. Despite years of physical therapy, McCain cannot move his arms above his shoulders. He cannot pull on a sweater, wear a hat, or brush his hair without assistance. A scar on his left cheek is from a skin cancer removed in 2000. If elected, McCain would be the oldest president ever inaugurated.

Answer: When I saw him on the news last night, he did not look so well. His vibrancy was gone, and it appeared that his ancient age had finally caught up with him. We are yet early in the election cycle, and I really feel sorry for him. He has put himself in a precarious situation, and I have to wonder if he will even last long enough to be on the November ballot!

Question: Should a person with cancer be sunbathing or getting in a tanning bed? This is part question, part rant, but my mother had breast cancer surgery a few months ago and just completed radiation therapy. She has to take a medication for five years. She has red hair and is fair skinned and freckled. She announced to me she wanted to come to my pool today (96 degrees and not a cloud in the sky!) but couldn't reach me and so now she wants to come down and get in my tanning bed. I politely asked her if she was out of her mind. She then started carrying on about how it doesn't matter and they (the doctors) want her to get some sun, etc. And when I didn't go along with her, she started saying it didn't matter if she lives or dies anyway, so what's the difference. I finally told her, "You are irrational, and I cannot have this conversation with you. I have to hang up. Goodbye." I'm sure I will never hear the end of this. Please tell me I'm not nuts. Is she in any position to be getting in a tanning bed or sitting in the blistering sun?! Couple notes. 1.) No, I am not stupid enough to think that the sun causes BREAST cancer. 2.) Just because I happen to be the owner of a tanning bed doesn't mean that I use it. In fact, I don't. 3.) I am not nagging her, about this or anything else. She is expecting me to "sign off" on her burning herself and risking the effects of another cancer by coming into my home to lay out at my pool and in my family's tanning bed. She is saying things like,"It doesn't really matter if I live or die anyways." As her only child, how do you think that makes me feel for her to ask me think that is a healthy attitude or that her frying herself is a healthy thing to do to prevent future cancers? It's like asking me to run to the store and buy her some cigarettes 3 months after her cancer diagnosis. I can't tell her she can't smoke, but I can certainly tell her I'M not going to be the one to put it in her hand. To clarify, the used tanning bed was bought years ago when my daughters were in high school and wanted to tan for dances. It was cheaper to buy it than keep buying tanning packages. Now it sits in a room that qualifies as a junk room. You can barely walk to it, and WE don't even use it. No, happydawg, she wasn't trying to "visit" with me. I wasn't even home at the time. I was working. She just wanted me to give my approval for her to go to my house and tan.

Answer: You're not nuts at all. NO ONE should be baking in the sun, whether they are a cancer patient or not. The sun's effects are not good for anyone. I work with a woman who's mom just has just been diagnoses with breast cancer. Think that stops her from smoking, tanning.. you name it! Of course not. People need to learn to take care of themselves better. Sadly we can't do much but offer them our good advice. You can't make anyone listen if they don't want to.

Question: My gf has constant arrostophobia, she always thinks she is sick etc? She has been to a million doctors, they advise her that she has nothing, everything is in her mind, but she just cant get over it, she always thinks that she might got cancer, get mad, die etc, she for example has a pimple and thinks its skin cancer bla bla , she also has ocd and lots of stress, anxiety, do you think she need therapy?

Answer: She definitely needs therapy. She won't be able to get better or learn to control it if she doesn't and she won't be very happy. Something that might help, is if you tell her to write down everything she is worrying about one day and put it somewhere she will see it the next day. And when she reads it, she'll see that she is okay and there's no need to worry so much about them. Or write down things she worries about everyday and look at them all at the end of the week. But for it to work, she needs to do it. Just a helpful suggestion. :)

Question: My cat may have cancer. What can I do to improve his health/chances? Merlin is 12 years old. He has already been scheduled for surgery, later this month, to removed the large tumor (which is on his hind leg), but the results from biopsy won't be back until May 1st. In general, he has experienced good health, and is active, though chubby (12.8 pounds). He lives with two female cats, one older and one much younger. They all eat a high quality dry food, for "sensetive skin," and are much-loved indoor cats. I know the usual answers (chemotherapy, vet-precribed medication), but was hoping that pet lovers might have some other ideas, foods or supplements he could injest, homeopathic remedies, medical therapies that have worked for pets you know, specific medications that worked wonders for your "baby," etc.

Answer: I currently have two cats with "agressive" cancers. Both are being treated by a homeopathic veterinarian. That is not the usual choice. I am a member of the Yahoo group felinecancer and created one of my own for felinebladdercancer. I strongly urge you to join the regular cancer group. Cats with many types of cancer, oral squamous cell carcinoma, mammary cancer, lympohoma, etc. You can join the group and diaglog with members to find out what treatments their cats are receiving, what drugs are being used, what supplements are given, etc. Go to: http://www.yahoogroups.com and put in a search for felinecancer.

Question: Health care professionals please respond. My TB skin test was positive. Do I risk taking the meds? After 20 years as a Respiratory Therapist, and every year, testing went well This time the test was possitive! I have a weak immune system from a long term chemical exposure at the hospital years ago. The occupational health Doc. says I must go on antibiotic therapy for 6 months, this med is very toxic to the liver most of the time patients develop nonspecific hepetitsis from it and I am not to even take tylonol while taking the drug. The drug is meant to incapsulate the TB particals in my lung, to prevent it from becoming an active form of TB. At this point it is only an exposure. After the +skin test I found that over 1/2 of my department tested positive years ago and never did the treatment, just a lung x-ray yearly. I know I am highly suseptable to everything and 20 times more likely to develop cancer than others because of immunities and immuture T cells. I am very concerned about this and would like input. Web sites welcome. Anything! What would you do?

Answer: I personally would not start the drug regimen on the basis of a positive TB skin test. I would insist on a chest x-ray and/or a sputum culture. Only if one of those showed positive for TB would I begin the meds. It's to be expected that you would have been exposed to TB often enough that your skin test would read positive. But whether you actually have TB has yet to be determined.

Question: what to do about skin grown over and practically obscuring clitoris after having ceased taking H.R.T.? Six years ago I had A lump removed from my breast because of cancer,so had to cease taking hormone replacement therapy.Now my clitoris is covered over with skin.What to do. I heard they could slice the skin but my health plan does not cover this procedure.

Answer: In your particular situation,I would seek proffesional help,and then decide if the info given to you is what's right for you and your needs.Do it for you and no one else.PEACE