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Melanoma
The most dangerous form of skin cancer, these cancerous growths develop when unrepaired DNA damage …
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Breast Cancer and Melanoma: How They Are Linked
By Su Luo and Hensin Tsao, MD, PhD
Since breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed …
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Melanoma - Treatments
The first step in treatment is the removal of the melanoma, and the standard method of doing this …
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Melanoma — What You Need to Know
Hearing the words "It's cancer" can be overwhelming. Often, people are too stunned to be able to …
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Melanoma Causes and Risk Factors
Everyone is at some risk for melanoma, but increased risk depends on several factors: sun …
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Melanoma Prevention Guidelines
Since its inception in 1979, The Skin Cancer Foundation has always recommended using a sunscreen …
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Melanoma Warning Signs and Images
Even if you have carefully practiced sun safety all summer, it's important to continue being …
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Stay Safe on Your Getaway: A Study Links Tropical Vacations and Melanoma
If you're headed for the sun-baked shores, be warned: A recent study shows a link between …
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The Stages of Melanoma
Once the type of melanoma has been established, the next step is to classify the disease as to its …
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Types of Melanoma
The Four Basic Types Melanomas fall into four basic categories. Three of them begin in situ …
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Women and Melanoma: Its Getting Scarier
It is well known that young women in the U.S. have recently had significant increases in the two …
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Adjuvant (Additional) Treatment
For patients with Stages III and IV disease, surgery is usually followed with an additional …
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Do You Know Your ABCDEs?
Even if you have carefully practiced sun safety all summer, it's important to continue being …
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Guide to Staging — Melanoma
New Melanoma Staging System – By means of an unprecedented cooperative effort among cancer …
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Lymph Node Involvement
Once a melanoma has progressed beyond Stage II, it has spread beyond the original site. It is most …
