Can you ever imagine what it would be like if you knew that you had a limited amount of time in this world? Cancer is one of the most known deadly disease in the world. There are different type of cancer and anyone can get it. Melanoma is a skin cancer that it is less common than other type of skin cancer, but it is most likely to lowly spread around your body. Melanoma cancer is a cancer that starts in a specific skin cell. The main type of skin cells that lead to cancer in your body are Squamous cells, Basal cells and, Melanocytes. Melanoma starts from the Melanocytes. Melanocytes is a skin cell that makes the skin darken when you are in the sun for a long period of time by the help of melanin. Melanocytes produces melanin, melanin leads to a long lasting pigmentation on the skin. You can get Melanoma anywhere in the body such as eyes, mouth, chest, back, hands, etc. Animals such as dogs and cats can also get melanoma cancer. …show more content…
Melanoma cancer can cause serious illness and death. For early stage of melanoma the percentage survival is 99%. The possibility of melanoma that has started to spread on the body percentage of cure is 63%. If melanoma has badly spread to other parts of the body survival percentage is 20. There are different stages of melanoma. Stage one and two of melanoma is considered to be the earliest and can be treatable but, it depends by knowing how deep the melanoma has got into the skin and around the tissue. Stage one and two can usually be treated by surgery to remove the mole and tests to ensure it hasn't spread to lymph nodes. Stages three through five are cancer stages that are deadly and should be checked out by a