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

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   Melanoma symptoms and signs. Melanoma tumors tend to be black or brown, but can sometimes be pink, tan or white. Anyone can get melanoma, but people with light skin are at greater risk. Causes of ...

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

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   Causes of melanoma. Ultraviolet light exposure from the sun or from tanning beds causes most melanomas. Melanoma may appear at a spot where you have an existing mole. But if an unusual spot shows ...

4. Melanoma - Wikipedia

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   Diagnosis is by biopsy and analysis of any skin lesion that has signs of being potentially cancerous. [1] Avoiding UV light and using sunscreen in UV-bright sun conditions may prevent melanoma. [2] Treatment typically is removal by surgery of the melanoma and the potentially affected adjacent tissue bordering the melanoma. [1]

5. Skin cancer - Wikipedia

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   Around 434,000 people receive treatment for non-melanoma skin cancers and 10,300 are treated for melanoma. Melanoma is the most common type of cancer in people between 15 and 44 years in both countries. The incidence of skin cancer has been increasing. [71]

6. Superficial spreading melanoma - Wikipedia

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   Treatment is by excisional biopsy, wide local excision and possibly sentinel node biopsy. Localized melanoma, which has not spread beyond the skin, has a very good prognosis with low recurrence rates. Spread of disease to local lymph nodes or distant sites (typically brain, bone, skin and lung) marks a decidedly poor prognosis.

7. MELANOMA: Early diagnosis and treatment crucial - AOL

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   The five-year survival rate for localized melanoma that hasn’t spread beyond the skin where it was found is as high as 99 percent. MELANOMA: Early diagnosis and treatment crucial Skip to main ...