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What You Really Need to Know about Moles and Melanoma

Jill R. Schofield, M.D., and William A. Robinson, M.D., Ph.D.

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Comprehensive information about melanoma for patients and family members as well as those who are concerned about getting the disease.

Throughout the world, the incidence of malignant melanoma is increasing at an alarming rate. This dramatic rise is largely due to more frequent and prolonged exposure to intense sun, the result of major changes in clothing styles, recreation, and lifestyle (including widespread access to midwinter resort vacations). Significantly, recent scientific studies have shown an increased number of moles on, and a higher rate of melanoma in, people with the greatest...

Comprehensive information about melanoma for patients and family members as well as those who are concerned about getting the disease.

Throughout the world, the incidence of malignant melanoma is increasing at an alarming rate. This dramatic rise is largely due to more frequent and prolonged exposure to intense sun, the result of major changes in clothing styles, recreation, and lifestyle (including widespread access to midwinter resort vacations). Significantly, recent scientific studies have shown an increased number of moles on, and a higher rate of melanoma in, people with the greatest sunscreen use, pointing out the mistaken belief that using sunscreen means getting a "safe" tan. The truth is that most sunscreen provides protection from UVB rays—the rays that cause the sunburn you see and feel—but not from UVA rays—the cancer-causing rays that penetrate deeper into the skin.

In this book, physicians Jill R. Schofield and William A. Robinson team up to provide comprehensive information about melanoma for patients and family members as well as those who are concerned about getting the disease. They provide the latest information on prevention, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and follow-up, and answer a host of questions, such as: • I use a number 15 sunscreen. Is that enough? • I have been under a lot of stress lately. Did that make me get melanoma? • If the melanoma comes back, when will it happen? • Is there a blood test to tell if the melanoma has spread? • Is a mole more likely to turn into melanoma if it's in a place where my clothes rub?

In addition, the authors describe who is at risk and tell readers how to determine their level of risk; describe skin warning signs and unusual forms of melanoma; talk about melanoma in children, pregnant women, and people whose immune systems are compromised; and take a look at what's on the horizon in diagnosis and treatment. The book is fully illustrated with color photographs and line drawings and includes a glossary and a guide to resources—support and advocacy organizations, and web sites—for people with melanoma.

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This deadly cancer can sneak up on you in the prime of your life, even years after you've covered up. You need to be informed and protect yourself. This is just the book to help you.

Patients and families with melanoma will find this book informative and useful as they deal with this illness. The authors do an excellent job of explaining complicated and difficult medical concepts in plain language.

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6.25
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9.25
Pages
248
ISBN
9780801863936
Illustration Description
14 line drawings, 22 color plates
Table of Contents

Part I. Melanoma: Recognizing and Preventing It
Chapter 1. What Is Malignant Melanoma?
Chapter 2. About Pigmented Lesions
Chapter 3. What Causes Melanoma, and Why Are So Many People Getting It?
Chapter 4

Part I. Melanoma: Recognizing and Preventing It
Chapter 1. What Is Malignant Melanoma?
Chapter 2. About Pigmented Lesions
Chapter 3. What Causes Melanoma, and Why Are So Many People Getting It?
Chapter 4. Skin Warning Signs
Chapter 5. What Is Your Risk? The Risk Factors for Melanoma
Chapter 6. Prevention, Early Detection, and Education
Part II. Melanoma: Diagnosis and Treatment
Chapter 7. Diagnosing and Treating the Primary Lesion
Chapter 8. Staging, Treatment Decisions, Prognosis, and Follow-Up
Chapter 9. Adjuvant Therapy
Chapter 10. Treating Advanced Melanoma
Chapter 11. Managing Pain and the End of Life
Part III. Melanoma: Less Common Types and Melanoma Research
Chapter 12. Unusual Forms of Melanoma
Chapter 13. What's New in Melanoma Research?
Guide to Resources for People with Cancer
Glossary
Index

Author Bios
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Jill R. Schofield, M.D.

Jill R. Schofield, M.D., is an internist/hospitalist at St. Joseph Hospital for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group in Denver. She has had a long-standing interest in the development, education, prevention, and early detection of malignant melanoma.
Featured Contributor

William A. Robinson, M.D., Ph.D.

William A. Robinson, M.D., Ph.D., is the American Cancer Society Professor of Clinical Oncology at the University of Colorado. He directed the Melanoma Research Clinic at the University of Colorado for many years, and served from 1996 to 1999 as a visiting scientist at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne.