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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. 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]

4. 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.

5. Signs and symptoms of cancer - Wikipedia

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   Signs and symptoms are not mutually exclusive, for example a subjective feeling of fever can be noted as sign by using a thermometer that registers a high reading. [7] Because many symptoms of cancer are gradual in onset and general in nature, cancer screening (also called cancer surveillance) is a key public health priority. This may include ...

6. Skin cancer is no joke: I’m one of the lucky ones but the ...

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   It was 12 weeks from the date of my initial malignant melanoma diagnosis to learning the stage of the cancer. I developed a swelling in my neck – a sign the cancer may have spread – during ...

7. The 'Carter effect': How the former president gave cancer ...

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   Since Carter’s diagnosis, at least 15 new treatments for stage 4 melanoma have been approved, said Dr. Michael Davies, chair of the department of melanoma and medical oncology at MD Anderson ...