Three years of displacement – untreated cancer grows to a dragon horn

A case report in the “British Medical Journal” describes what can happen if skin cancer is not treated. The Patient, a 50-year-old worker – suffers from a cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, a common type of skin cancer. These changes and deposits of the skin are detected most early and can be treated well. So you can’t become a “dragon horn”, as was done here. This would not have been in this case, necessary.

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The Sufferer lives in the UK and has access to a free healthcare system the NHS. He must have avoided over the years the contact to a doctor, even though the Horn was not to be overlooked, and it must have movements even during Sleep, disabled. The cancer was on the lower back of the man. Contrary to what one might think, is not growing the Horn from the spine, it comes from changes in the skin. In the three years it reached a length of 14 centimeters and had at the base a diameter of about six centimeters.

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The Patient was a smoker but had no other risk factors that are typically associated with skin cancer. Such growths can be surgically removed. The Patient was put under General anesthesia, and surgeons away the dragon’s horn. Also, healthy tissue had to be about eight millimeters around and under the Horn. To close the wound, was removed to the man’s own skin on the thigh, and as the graft used. Although everything went well, the doctors are shocked that “despite the current public awareness of skin cancer and the close-knit action for health care so large ulcers still occur and the network can slip in”. In fact, many patients ignore even eye-catching or weeping growths and are looking for a long time, no doctor.

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Good Chance Of A Cure

This type of disease accounts for about 20 percent of all skin cancer cases. In the USA, one of the eight men developed at least in the course of his life, a cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, albeit not of this size. Risk factors include light skin, exposure to UV light, chronic wounds, exposure to Arsenic, HPV infection, and poor function of the immune system. In General, these cancers can be treated well. In 2015, the disease has been diagnosed in 2.2 million people, only 51.900 died as a result, approximately 2.3 percent.

Source: BMJ

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