| First Person To Discover Skin Cancer The 1st discovery of melanoma was by a man names John Hunter in 1787. He was the first to actually come in contact with melanoma through surgery. He described what we know now as melanoma as a cancerous fungus. These lead scientists to save the extracted tumor in a surgery museum in England. Later on, about 1968, they put the tumor under a microscope and determined it was metastatic melanoma. Metastatic melanoma is when the melanoma that started on either the skin or eyes made its way into the persons organs. These organs inside the body, when infected with melanoma, shut down and do not work. In this case, this is what happened. Rene Laennic was the first to term the melanoma as an actual disease and treated it like one. Until then, they did not know much about melanoma and were still researching it. This stayed in line with the idea in 1806 that melanoma was hereditary in some people. In 1956, Henry Lancaster took it a step further and noticed when exposed to ultraviolet rays, the cancer become worsened and actually developed. As it still stands today, as when they discovered in 1840. Melanoma is still relatively not curable. There are exceptions when you find the melanoma in its first stage during the first year; however, even then it is sometimes a fruitless attempt. The 1st discovery of melanoma has lead to many discoveries that have increased chances across the board, but much research and development is still needed to come to a conclusion about treatment and the cancer. Eventually, there will be better ways to handle and cure melanoma. Unfortunately, it takes time, effort and a lot of dedication to come up with this type of concrete solution. There has been much funded research by many parties in order to have success with melanoma cancer, but many have failed only to try again. Since the 1st discovery of melanoma, many more people have become educated and aware. Unfortunately, many people still do not detect malignant melanoma until it is too late and it has already spread. |
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