| Skin cancer is one of the most common of all | | | | to another organ is confused with primary cancer |
| cancers. Though melanoma is the least common | | | | of that organ. Primary cancer is cancer that |
| kind of skin cancer, it is the most serious type of | | | | begun in that organ. Melanoma that has extended |
| the disease. Melanoma happens in melanocytes, a | | | | to other areas of the body might not be |
| sort of cell in the skin that creates the pigment | | | | detectable until long after the original melanoma |
| that provides skin its natural color. Melanoma | | | | was removed from the skin. |
| starts when melanocytes become malignant, | | | | There are special tests that could be made on |
| which could take place on any skin surface. | | | | biopsy samples that can tell whether it is a |
| In men, it is frequently found on the trunk or the | | | | melanoma or some other type of cancer. This is |
| head and neck. In women, melanoma frequently | | | | significant for the reason that different cancers |
| grows on the lower legs. The possibility of | | | | are frequently given different treatments. |
| developing melanoma raises with age, but it has | | | | Treatment of a primary lung cancer is really |
| an effect on people of all age groups and is one | | | | different from treatment of melanoma that has |
| of the most widespread cancers in young adults. | | | | extended to the liver or lung. That's why it is |
| Melanoma could spread rapidly and create large | | | | significant to observe if cancer in an organ is |
| malignant tumors in the lung, brain, liver, or other | | | | primary cancer or a malignant melanoma that has |
| organs. Sometimes melanoma that has extended | | | | extended there. |