Dangerous moles: how to identify and to whom to go

News24xx.com - Moles hide a great danger in themselves, and people with their abundance need to protect their skin especially strongly from the influence of the sun. However, the very presence of moles does not mean that problems will necessarily arise with them.

Experts advise checking your own risks for serious diseases due to body pigmentation. The likelihood of melanoma becomes higher if the disease is manifested in the immediate family.

The body is particularly sensitive to diseases during hormonal adjustment, for example, during menopause, pregnancy, childbirth or abortion. Lighter skin can also cause the appearance of aggressive cells. Redheads with lots of freckles are also at risk. A person runs the risk of acquiring skin cancer if he has one or more regularly injured moles on his body that suffer from a belt, comb, linen or a razor. Constant contact with the sun without body protection with SPF filters increases the risk of disease. An illness can also begin to progress if a person has experienced more than 5 serious sunburns in his entire life.

Women should be more likely to look for suspicious feet, and men - back and abdomen, while melanoma is less likely to develop on the face. A suspicious mole begins to count, if it has vague borders, an irregular shape, inhomogeneous blotches of color, and also a large size.

In the case when changes in the appearance of moles become apparent, it is worth to consult a doctor. If the expert decides that mole is dangerous, it is better to conduct a small operation to remove the mole. Some citizens are frightened by the need to visit an oncologic dispensary to check a mole, therefore, for convenience, entire programs have been developed to identify dangerous formations in the early stages. In addition, an oncologist’s assistance can be obtained online by sending a photo of a suspicious pigmentation site.