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What is Superficial Spreading Melanoma (SSM)?
Living a full, healthy, and happy life — not just surviving — starts with knowing vital information about your disease and the available treatment options.
Superficial spreading melanoma is the most common form of melanoma and accounts for 70 percent of all cases. Arising from pigment cells called melanocytes, this potentially serious skin cancer grows horizontally across the top layer of your skin before moving into the deeper layers.
What are the Signs of Superficial Spreading Melanoma?
Here at New Hope Unlimited, the main objective of our alternative cancer treatment is to address the symptoms of superficial spreading melanoma. SSM has many identifiable symptoms, such as:
- Shape: SSM can appear flat or raised with irregular shapes and borders. Sometimes, it can look like a freckle.
- Color: It may be black, brown, tan, blue, red, white, or a combination of these colors.
- Location: In most cases, SSM appears on the legs of women, the torsos of men, and the upper backs of both sexes. It can also occur in an existing or new mole.
- Changes: SSM progresses at a slow pace, usually over a span of several years.
- Itchy or stinging sensation: A mole or unusual growth from SSM is sometimes itchy and may sting.
What Caused Your Skin Cancer?
The exact causes of superficial spreading melanoma are unknown. However, genetic mutations and environmental factors seem to play a significant role in its development.
The primary risk factors for superficial spreading melanoma include:
- Having 50 or more moles
- Having a personal or family history of melanoma
- Excessive exposure to UVA and UVB
- Having light-colored skin, hair, and eyes
- Being middle-aged (40 to 50 years old) or older
How Do Doctors Diagnose Superficial Spreading Melanoma?
Receiving an early diagnosis is critical to improving a lentigo maligna melanoma prognosis. To produce accurate findings, a dermatologist and skin cancer specialist will examine you and ask a series of questions, including but not limited to:
- “Do you sunbathe or use tanning beds frequently?”
- “When did you first notice the changes in your skin?”
- “Has your skin abnormality changed in appearance?”
- “Has it bled, been painful, or itchy?”
In the suspicion of skin cancer, undergoing a sentinel lymph node biopsy is usually necessary. A computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan can also help determine whether cancer has spread.
If you receive a superficial spreading melanoma diagnosis, the next most important step is to plan your treatment.
Choose New Hope Unlimited — Your Customized Cancer Treatment Provider
Sometimes, treatment for superficial spreading melanoma may persist for prolonged periods with repeated recurrences. For this exact reason, our doctors and extensively-trained support professionals are dedicated to developing close medical relationships with you, ensuring you receive the comprehensive care you deserve. We are confident that giving you our individualized attention influences your prognosis positively, as well as improves your chances of a fuller and healthier life after treatment. To learn more about treatment strategy, click here.
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Patient SatisfactionOur Patient-Centric Medical Facilities
At New Hope Unlimited, we pride ourselves in providing superior comfort, cleanliness, and cancer care at our 8,000 square foot medical treatment center in San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico. We worked with renowned architects and contractors to create the ideal space for recovery, which includes state-of-the-art lounge areas and spacious private in-rooms that assure the comfort of our patients and their loved ones.
To make our patients feel right at home, we equip each private ward with high-definition U.S. television, quality bedding, and high-speed internet connection. And with proper nutrition playing a vital role in cancer recovery, New Hope Unlimited also fulfills the dietary needs of each patient using fresh, organic produce to prepare breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners.
Comfort and cleanliness are also strictly implemented in our medical treatment rooms, which are equipped with the latest medical supplies and technology to provide the highest standard of care and treatment. Our medical center also has an in-house Hyperbaric Chamber, a well-established therapy for decompression sickness, exclusively available for our patients’ use.
Further, New Hope Unlimited has maintained its exceptional partnership with Hospital Migoo, a medical group composed of certified physicians and specialists committed to our patients’ care and well-being.
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FAQs
1. What is the survival rate for superficial spreading melanoma?
According to a published study that observed nearly 100,000 people with superficial spreading melanoma, the relative five-year survival rate was 95 percent and rising.
2. What specific treatments does New Hope Unlimited offer?
From live cell therapy to botanical medicine, read our dedicated Treatments for Cancer page to know about the alternative superficial spreading melanoma treatments you may receive.
