Skin Cancer Can Attack Children

Skin cancer was not familiar with discrimination. This disease can also affect children. This warning expressed by experts, following the discovery of cases of children under five are to have an operation because of suffering from melanoma.

At the age of 2 years, Frankie Prebble skin actually has not been exposed to the sun, when doctors diagnose Frankie has been suffering from skin cancer.

Frankie parents find there are pink spots that continued to grow and began to bleed. Australia has long been recognized as a region with the highest cases of melanoma in the world, but not all cases of skin cancer caused by sun exposure.

Doctoral Mark Lee who operated Frankie said, this is the strangest case that had ever worked, and according to him, the sun is not the only reason behind skin tumors in Frankie.

"Frankie is still very young and have not been frequently exposed to sunlight, so it seems there are a lot of other originator in case he suffered melanoma, such as genetics and biology of the tumor," said Dr. Lee.
 
"Skin Cancer or Melanoma can indeed be very different in each person,"
 
Melanoma cases suffered by Frankie, thought to only occur in 1 in 5 million people. Although cases of cancer by Frankie 99.9% can be cured, but doctors assess lifetime Frankie must remain alert.