After years of indoor tanning, and ultraviolet exposure, your skin may suffer a lot. Maybe it is time to treat it gently because skin cancer doesn’t spare anyone.
The cutaneous cancer is an atypical development of dermal cells. It generally develops on areas of the skin that are exposed to the sunlight. It can occur in people of all skin complexions and races.
However, people with fair skin and who are sensitive to sunburn easily run a higher risk. Fortunately, our oncologists and skin doctors put their knowledge at your disposal and offer you the best therapies.
What are the kinds of Cutaneous Tumours?
Like many mutated cells, the skin cancer usually comes in a form of a tumour. There are many types of cutaneous tumours which include:
Actinic keratoses
These dry, scaly patches are precancerous growths. Patients who get actinic keratosis usually have fair skin. Most people are affected after 40 years because it tends to develop after years of exposure to the sun.
Actinic keratoses usually form on skin exposed to the sun, such as the head, neck, hands and forearms.
Since actinic keratosis can progress to a type of skin cancer called cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC),treatment is important.
Cutaneous Basal Cell Carcinoma (cBCC)
cBCC usually occurs in people with pale skin, but it can also occur in those with darker skin. Basal cell carcinomas look like a flesh-colored, pearly lump or a piece of pinkish skin.
This type of cancer cells appear after years of frequent sun exposure or indoor tanning. The most common areas affected are the head, neck and arms. However, the disease can occur anywhere else, including the chest, abdomen and legs.
Early diagnosis and treatment of cBCC is important. cBCC can invade surrounding tissue and occurs in nerves and bones, causing damage and disfigurement.
Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC)
Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma is the second most frequent form of skin cancer. People with fair skin are more likely to have a cSCC. However, it can also appear in dark-skinned individuals.
Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma often looks like a firm, red bump, scaly skin, or a lesion that heals and then reopens.
This tumour usually develops on skin that is exposed to the sun rays frequently, such as around the ear, neck, arms, face, back and chest. Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin can develop deep into the skin and cause damage and deformity. Early diagnosis and treatment can prevent this problem and prevent the spread of cSCC to other parts of the body.
Skin Cancer Surgery in Turkey’s Clinics & Its Side Effects
The operation is the fundamental remedy for skin cancer. It involves removing the cancerous tumor and part of the surrounding skin.
Treatment for non-melanoma skin cancer is generally effective because, unlike most other types of cancer, the risk of spreading the cancer to other parts of the body is greatly reduced.
Is there a treatment for Skin Cancer without Surgery?
Other types of skin cancer treatment include freezing (cryotherapy),cancer creams, radiation therapy, and a form of light treatment called photodynamic therapy (PDT).
The treatment employed will rely on the form, size and location of the skin cancer you suffer from.
What are the possible Side Effects?
There is no surgery that does not comport risks and side effects. The potential complications of skin cancer surgical procedure depend on the type of surgery and may include:
- Pain sensation.
- Cicatrices or deformity.
- Puffiness or bruising.
- Numbness or nerve damage (alteration of the skin sensitivity).
- Haemorrhaging (bleeding).
- Infection.
- Weariness.
- Oedema.
Skin Cancer Treatment Success Rate & Cost in Turkey
Cutaneous Basal cell carcinoma does not generally invade other organs of the body. There is a low risk (up to five percent) of cSCC cancer spreading to other parts of the body, usually the lymph nodes (small glands found throughout the body).
However, for both cBCC and cSCC, considerable skin damage can sometimes be caused if the tumor is left untreated.
What is Skin Cancer Treatment Success Rate in Clinics in Turkey?
In our partner clinics, ninety percent cases of non-melanoma cutaneous cancer has been successfully treated. So, the success rate of this treatment in our partner hospitals medical centers in Turkey is very high.
What is the Cost& Price of this therapy in Istanbul?
Turquie santé strives to offer you the best cost, price and the best quality of service in Turkey and Istanbul.
Costs include all the cancer care worth from diagnosis, treatment to follow-up to the use of health care resources.
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- Protect your skin from the sun by wearing hats and applying sunscreens with a sun protection factor of at least 30;
- Avoid tanning salons;
- Eat enough foods rich in vitamin D;
- Check for any changes in your skin (moles, a wart, a skin lesion that would not heal).
The signs that show you may have skin cancer are:
- Encrusted lesion which bleeds, does not heal or recurs after healing;
- Flat, pale or yellow area resembling a scar;
- Red or pink, scaly patches with irregular, raised edges;
- Small smooth and shiny patches, white, pink or red;
- A mass with small veins on the surface;
- Irritated and itchy areas;
- A wart-like skin growth.
- Exposure to ultraviolet rays (tanning, PUVA treatment);
- Pallor (weak secretion of melanin);
- Exposure to ionizing radiation (α, β, X or γ);
- Contact with Arsenic;
- Working with certain products (bedded clay, tar, charcoal, creosote, etc.)
- Xeroderma pigmentosum disease: a disease that causes sensitivity to extreme rays to ultraviolet rays;
- Gorlin Syndrome (Basal Cell Nævomatosis): a very rare genetic disease characterized by a predisposition to develop several cancers.
- Immunosuppressive diseases.
The main treatment for skin cancer in our partner clinics in Turkey is surgery. There is also targeted therapy and immunotherapy.
