The “age spots” that affect the appearance are actually cancer?

Aunt Zhou is 63 years old this year. She started to develop age spots 10 years ago, more than her peers. I don’t know what happened, but in the first two months, Aunt Zhou had an senile plaque on her face that suddenly became itchy and she couldn’t help scratching it. In order to relieve the itching, she also went to the street to buy a lotion and applied it, but it had no effect at all, and the symptoms became more and more serious.

The spot got bigger and bigger, even turned black and bursting with water. Because the change in this spot was particularly obvious, the family quickly took Aunt Zhou to the hospital. The doctor’s examination results shocked the family. The pathology showed that it was basal cell carcinoma, which belongs to skin cancer.

Obviously many people will get age spots when they get older, why is Aunt Zhou’s cancer? Woolen cloth? In fact, in daily life, many spots may be inextricably linked with cancer.

First, pay attention to these spots on the body, they may be related to cancer

The professional term for age spots is“Seborrheic keratosis” is a benign intraepidermal tumor caused by delayed keratinocyte maturation. The proportion will be higher, and women generally have a higher incidence during perimenopause. Age spots are usually found in seborrheic areas, including the head, face, neck, back, and limbs.

Under normal circumstances, senile plaques have a very slow course of disease, which can radiate to the surrounding area, or may merge into large pieces. Will not heal on its own. There are some reports that patients with senile plaques are complicated with basal cell tumors, but it is very rare. Therefore, senile plaques are not clinically considered to be precancerous lesions.

Some patients diagnosed with cancer due to “senile plaques” are likely to be related to other skin spots and age spots. Due to confusion, these three types of spots are easily confused with age spots.

1. Basal cell carcinoma

Basic cell carcinoma is one of the most common malignant tumors in dermatology. 7-90% of basal cell carcinomas occur on the side of the nose, cheeks, and forehead.

The lesions of the disease grow very slowly, usually with local infiltration and destruction, and rarely metastasize. In the early stage of the disease, it is usually small, waxy nodules. Ulcers form in the middle. Because there is little discomfort in the affected area, it is easily ignored by people, and many people think that it is just an ordinary age spot.

2. Melanoma

Melanoma is a small “black” in the early stage Mole”, different from ordinary black moles, the mole caused by melanoma develops very rapidly and has strong harmfulness, The harm it brings to the body is no less than that of lung cancer, stomach cancer and other tumors. Some areas that are frequently rubbed, such as moles on the soles of the feet, elbows, and scalp, have a higher risk of malignant transformation.

3. Solar keratosis

The disease usually occurs at the age of 65 Among the above elderly groups, long-term exposure to ultraviolet light is the main pathogenic factor, which belongs to a kind of precancerous lesions. The lesions of patients are mostly in the parts that are often exposed to sunlight, such as the face, neck, forearm, etc.

The site of occurrence often has the hallmarks of sun damage—dryness, shrinkage, atrophy, and telangiectasia, which appear as spots Dry, sticky scales, not easy to peel off, surrounded by redness, a very small number of solar keratosis will gradually evolve into invasive squamous cell carcinoma, threatening the life of the patient.

As ordinary people, how should we distinguish whether the spots on our body are normal age spots or those with malignant tendency? teach you a few methods.

Second, how to judge whether there is a risk of “age spots” and skin cancer on your body?

Age spots appear in the early stage asHazel, brown-black macules, patches, no Fixed shape, varying in size, butclear borders, smooth surface, gradually increasing in size and darkening with age and disease course Wait. In some groups of elderly people, it will gradually become rough as it develops, and it will evolve into papules and warts.

Wang Baoxi, Chief Physician of the Hospital of Plastic Surgery, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciencespointed out that these three points are the main points to judge whether the plaque has the risk of canceration :

1. Look at the growth site

Spots and moles growing on the exposed site, Daily exposure to intense ultraviolet rays increases the possibility of malignant transformation.

2. Look at the color

risk of malignant transformation of unevenly colored spots and moles Also increases if the spots are on exposed areas of the skin and are multiple colors in the same area, accompanied by scabs, it means there is a great risk of malignant transformation.

3. Look at the shape

Normal spots should be soft and well-defined. Be alert if you noticespots on your body that are firm, rough in texture, or accompanied by scabs.

After learning how to distinguish senile plaques from malignant plaques, let’s follow Xiao Ai to understand the causes of senile plaques? Let’s look down together.

3. Why do age spots grow?

1. Age

Occurrence of senile plaques and physiological skin aging, chronic light damage There is a strong correlation between photoaging caused by , increasing age and long-term exposure to UV rays can increase the risk.

2. Inheritance

The occurrence of senile plaques has a certain familial tendency, which is a autosomal dominant genetic disease. If both parents in the family develop age spots when they are old, the risk of developing age spots in their children will also be significantly increased, and they will even appear earlier than normal.

3. Excessively clean skin

Most modern young people pay great attention to maintenance, some Women tend to over-cleanse and care for their skin on a daily basis. As everyone knows, frequent exfoliation will damage the skin barrier, and it is easy to cause age spots to come to the door ahead of time.

4. Excessive stress in life, greasy diet

Excessive long-term stress, diet Too much oil will accelerate the aging of the human body, and the sebaceous glands secreted by the skin will also increase, and some of the lipofuscin produced by it will be deposited in the skin, resulting in the early appearance of age spots.

For some beauty lovers who already have age spots, how to solve this problem? These methods are all you need to know.

Fourth, how to improve age spots?

1. Treat as needed

Some people think that age spots seriously affect their appearance, so they want to make It disappears completely. In this case, you can choose to use laser therapy to remove senile plaques. Note that you must choose a regular hospital for treatment, and must not Choose some informal clinics for laser treatment to avoid unnecessary risks to yourself.

2. Pay attention to sun protection

Sun protection can significantly reduce the direct damage of ultraviolet rays to the skin, And it can control the generation of free radicals, and has a good reduction effect on the deposition of melanin and lipofuscin.

3. Massage

Frequently massaging the face can promote the blood circulation of the face and improve the skin It has a good effect on preventing/delaying the formation of age spots and relieving skin aging.

4. Eat a reasonable diet

Pay attention to eating less sweets, high oil , high-fat food, eat as much fresh fruits and vegetables as possible every day, can play a good anti-aging effect.

5. Active exercise

Exercise promotes One of the important methods of metabolism, washing your face after exercise can speed up the rate of skin excretion of waste, which can delay skin aging.

Age plaques are actually not as scary as imagined, and most of them are benign lesions. What we should really be vigilant about are the above-mentioned “age spots” that have a great tendency to become malignant. We should pay attention to identifying them every day. If we are really uncertain, we recommend going to the hospital for an examination and consulting a professional doctor. #HealthStar Plan# #Elderly people on the headlines#

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