What is a skin tumor?
skin tumor is a type of tumor that develops on an epidermis. Tumors, including skin tumors, are groups of abnormal cells that grow, called neoplasm. People often combine a skin tumor with cancer, but in fact tumors may not be cancer and the vast majority are not. Tumors are usually classified in three different groups: benign, pre-malignant and malignant. Only malignant tumors are actually cancerous. Neoplasm is a group of abnormal cells, but these abnormal cells do not necessarily form lump. When the neoplasm forms lump, it is known as a tumor. If this tumor is formed for an epidermis, it is known as a skin tumor. If the skin tumor that forms malignant, which means it has uncontrolled growth, comes to the tissue and can even spread to other parts of the body, then called skin cancer.
Benign skin tumor never turns into skin cancer, so there is no reason to worry, except perhaps aesthetic. Skin moths are a good example of this kind of skinDOR, and while many people remove them because they consider them unsightly, only some moths are cancerous. Uterine fibroids are another good example of a benign skin tumor. Some other forms of benign skin tumor include seborrheic keratos that look like small lesions glued to the skin, acrochordones, more often known as skin brands, epidermoid or sebaceous cyst, which are round, keratin cysts of skin and dermatofibroma that are small nodes that are lined on the skin
.Pre-alignive skin tumors are not cancer yet because they do not contain tissue. However, they are not benign, as they become malignant and show the same destructive properties as cancer cells. One common form-malignant cancer is in situ carcinoma where cells are neoplastic and continue to multiply but do not leave their limited space.
Most often the idea of a skin tumor is a cancer skin tumor because they are the most dangerous. Malignant tumorsThat, if they stay separately, they are likely to spread throughout the body, metastasizes and eventually kill the host. Malignant skin tumors are treated with a wide range of treatment that will try to destroy them, including chemotherapy, invasive surgery and radiation therapy. Skin tumors often spread first to the surrounding lymph nodes and in this case these lymph nodes should be removed. As long as tumors of malignant skin are detected in time, treatment is usually quite effective and is not terribly invasive or destructive.
Some things are considered a tumor on the skin when they are not, strictly said, a skin tumor. Lipoma is an excellent example, because it is subcutaneous, composed of adipocietes, creating a hard knot that can create an unsightly wound in the skin itself. Lipomas are usually extracted by minor surgery, as a result of small to no scarring.