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- noun Plural form of
melanoma .
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Examples
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Lerner was interested in melanomas, cancers of the pigment cells of human skin; he was curious to find out if there was any possible connection between this skin-lightening substance found in pineals and cancer.
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HUNTER: You know clinic says they think it may be the real reason why people are getting more melanomas, which is a very deadly form of cancer.
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Those kind of cancers, called melanomas, that start in black moles in the skin or cancers that arise in the kidney.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Cancer - January 2, 2000 2000
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Previous studies had implicated these protein interactions in the metastasis of other tumors such as melanomas and breast cancers.
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(such as melanomas and squamous cell carcinomas), fungal granulomas, and reactions to foreign bodies.
TheHorse.com News 2009
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These melanomas won't just appear spontaneously you know.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Small Minds and Giant Jesus. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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Some melanomas — a more serious form of skin cancer that kills 8,700 Americans a year — also begin as precancerous moles, called dysplastic nevi, Rigel says.
Doctors can treat skin precancer before it turns deadly 2011
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Some melanomas — a more serious form of skin cancer that kills 8,700 Americans a year — also begin as precancerous moles, called dysplastic nevi, Rigel says.
Doctors can treat skin precancer before it turns deadly 2011
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For one thing, Dr. Green says she can gauge roughly how close a woman is to menopause from the color of her vaginal walls, and says she has occasionally spotted malignant melanomas.
Questioning the Need for Routine Pelvic Exam Melinda Beck 2011
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These melanomas won't just appear spontaneously you know.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 22: Rerun Island: Small Minds and Giant Jesus. Tallulah Morehead 2011
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