VIRAL: Looking great with Moles? Know when it is harmless or cancerous.

Moles occur in all mammalian species and are very common in human. Almost everyone have it, may it be children or adult.  Some of which are taken to accounts that, it may predict in some sort, to an individual’s future, fate, personality and the rest of related predictions in the human interest. Seemingly they are hypothetical and mythical. Nonetheless their validity towards predicting the aforementioned is very low. However, science explains that our genetic moles can be sometimes a great disadvantage to human skin. Often they are harmless but can be occasionally cancerous. How is this possible?

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Melanocytic nevi (medical term for moles) are pigment-producing in our skin cells. They are benign neoplasms or hamartomas composed of melanocytes. Thus, when there is anomaly in embryogenesis it could be considered a malformation or harmartoma in which could lead to a genetic illness. Just like the story of this boy who gone viral in the internet and was being labeled “turtle boy” because of his rare illness in melanocytic nevi condition. 

It is called Congenital Melanocytic Nevus (CMN) in 2011. The prognosis of the rare illness is due to the enlargement of congenital nevi and is a high risk for malignancy degeneration into melanoma. If this cannot be treated in earlier stage it can lead to skin cancer because of its potential to be premalignant. The best recommendation for medical practice is to remove the congenital nevi in the young boy’s epidermis and relieve the nevocytic overload.

You can imagine how this condition can affect greatly into the child’s well-being. He can still do things as what normal children do but his actions are limited. Because of this genetic illness it somehow impaired the normal daily functioning of the innocent young boy. Also, no parents would have ever wanted his child to be in this kind of situation. The only best way to take is to treat the child as early as possible so that he could still manifest a normal human functioning and live his life. So, if a mole starts to grow, itch, or bleed, make an appointment to see your respective dermatologist.