Synonyms for melanoma
ˌmɛl əˈnoʊ mə; -mə təmelanoma

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1. melanoma, malignant melanomanoun

   any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes

   Synonyms:
   malignant melanoma

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1. • Skin Cancer

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1. List of paraphrases for "melanoma":

   cutaneous

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1. melanoma

   Synonyms:
   Melanoepithelioma (in part)

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1. Jennifer Powers:

   I think a lot of people today feel a lot of gratitude toward veterans and at the same time we really want to do everything we can to protect them and this is one of those instances where we’re identifying education and protection gaps that hopefully we will act on, melanoma is on the rise, more people are dying from it, yet is the number one preventable cancer. This [population] could be subtext of that trend.

2. Louise Perkins:

   The whole face of melanoma treatment has changed dramatically since 2011.

3. Sapna Patel:

   It’s tragic when this happens because the baby will usually develop melanoma within the first year of life, and because the disease is advanced, it’s always fatal.

4. Michelle Mitchell:

   These figures showing that six people die of melanoma every day in the U.K. really drive home the importance of sun safety, we all need to take steps to protect ourselves from the sun’s harmful UV rays.

5. Pedram Gerami:

   As a melanoma matures and goes through increasing stages, it can acquire a number of different mutations, and some of those mutations that it can acquire are mutations that would divide, and increase in number or increase in action, when it is exposed to certain hormones.