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Recent Examples of melanoma
For example, tattoo pigment may obscure early skin cancers like melanomas or interfere with lymph node evaluations during cancer staging.
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Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
While melanomas can be smaller, a larger diameter is a common indicator.
—Sarah Jividen, Health, 13 June 2025
By unleashing the body's own immune system against cancer cells, these treatments achieved what seemed impossible: long-term remission in patients with advanced melanoma who previously faced mere months to live.
—Samir Khleif, Time, 11 June 2025
Spontaneously appearing animal cancers share features with human cancers, like osteosarcoma (bone cancer), prostate and breast cancers, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and melanoma.
—Paul McClure 26, New Atlas, 26 May 2025
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Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
While melanomas can be smaller, a larger diameter is a common indicator.
—Sarah Jividen, Health, 13 June 2025
By unleashing the body's own immune system against cancer cells, these treatments achieved what seemed impossible: long-term remission in patients with advanced melanoma who previously faced mere months to live.
—Samir Khleif, Time, 11 June 2025
Spontaneously appearing animal cancers share features with human cancers, like osteosarcoma (bone cancer), prostate and breast cancers, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and melanoma.
—Paul McClure 26, New Atlas, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melanoma
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Malignant tumors are usually either squamous cell carcinoma, fibrosarcoma, melanoma, or other such as an osteosarcoma.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
11 May 2025
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Clear cell renal carcinoma gets its name from how the cancer cells appear under a microscope, the National Cancer Institute explains.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
7 May 2025
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Doctors later diagnosed Miller with Burkitt lymphoma, a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that develops in the lymphatic system.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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But some critics see her comment as an overly flippant endorsement of an invasive procedure that can lead to illness or infection and has been linked to BIA-ALCL, a form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (a cancer of the immune system).—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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Health Issues Exotic has prostate cancer and cancer in his left lung.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
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The Supreme Court on June 27 rejected the latest conservative challenge to the 2010 Affordable Care Act, an attack on free access to cancer screenings, drugs that prevent HIV, cholesterol-lowering medication and other preventive health care services.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
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Grail’s test identified malignancy in 1,453 of the cancer cases, missing it in 1,370.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Tumors of the prostate are the most common serious malignancy identified in men: Even aggressive ones like Biden’s are diagnosed roughly 25,000 times a year in the United States.—
Benjamin Mazer,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2025
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What to know about the seafarers The blobs are not jellyfish but colonies of polyps similar to the Portuguese man-of-war, according to JellyWatch.—
Daniella Segura,
Sacbee.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Some of these common drugs include antacids, antidepressants, blood pressure medication, iron supplements, and opiates (narcotics). Polyps or tumors: A blockage in the intestine caused by a large growth (a polyp) or a tumor prevents stool from passing.—
Amber J. Tresca,
Verywell Health,
4 June 2025
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“Melanoma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melanoma. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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