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2. How to spot 18 common — and not so common — bumps, rashes and ...

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   Anyone can get melanoma, but people with light skin are at greater risk. Causes of melanoma UV light exposure from ultraviolet rays from the sun or indoor tanning causes most melanomas.

3. Melanoma - Wikipedia

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   The likelihood that melanoma will reoccur or spread depends on its thickness, how fast the cells are dividing, and whether or not the overlying skin has broken down. [2] Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer. [2] Globally, in 2012, it newly occurred in 232,000 people. [2]

4. Is that mole melanoma? How to tell if a mole is cancerous or not

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   While the risk of melanoma increases as you age, it is also one of the most common skin cancers in young people, especially women, today, according to the Melanoma Research Alliance. It's the No ...

5. Benign melanocytic nevus - Wikipedia

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   However, a melanocytic nevus is benign, and melanoma is malignant. Most melanocytic nevi never evolve into a cancer, with the lifetime risk for an individual nevus being 1 in 3000 for men and 1 in 11 000 for women. [5] Moreover, dermatologists have a standardized system for determining whether a skin lesion is suspicious for malignant melanoma.

6. Woman's pinky toe amputated after spot under nail turned out ...

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   Melanoma on the extremities — nails, hands and feet — is the rarest subtype of the skin cancer, accounting for less than 5% of all melanomas, said Dr. Vishal Patel, assistant professor of ...

7. Melanocytic nevus - Wikipedia

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   If a melanocytic nevus is suspected of being a melanoma, it needs to be sampled or removed via skin biopsy, and sent for microscopic evaluation by a pathologist. Depending on the size and location of the original nevus, a complete excisional skin biopsy or a punch skin biopsy can be done. Removal can also occur by shaving.