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2. 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 ...

3. Melanoma - Wikipedia

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   Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer. [2] Globally, in 2012, it newly occurred in 232,000 people. [2] In 2015, 3.1 million people had active disease, which resulted in 59,800 deaths. [5] [6] Australia and New Zealand have the highest rates of melanoma in the world. [2]

4. Skin cancer - Wikipedia

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   Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer, globally accounting for at least 40% of cancer cases. [5] [20] The most common type is nonmelanoma skin cancer, which occurs in at least 2–3 million people per year. [6] [21] This is a rough estimate; good statistics are not kept. [1]

5. Melanocytic nevus - Wikipedia

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   Data on the chances of transformation from melanocytic nevus to melanoma is controversial, but it appears that about 10% of malignant melanomas have a precursor lesion, of which about 10% are melanocytic nevi. Therefore, it appears that malignant melanoma quite seldom (1% of cases) has a melanocytic nevus as a precursor. [9]

6. Woman diagnosed with melanoma at 28 has 100 suspicious moles ...

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   Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, can grow quickly and spread to any organ if not found and treated early, the Cleveland Clinic warns.More than 100,000 new cases of melanoma will be ...

7. Melanoma ‘no longer the leading cause of skin cancer deaths’

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   A new mole or a change in an existing mole may be signs of melanoma, while NMSC usually appears as a lump or discoloured patch on the skin that persists after a few weeks and slowly progresses ...

8. Melanocytic tumors of uncertain malignant potential - Wikipedia

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   Melanocytic tumors of uncertain malignant potential (MELTUMP) are melanocytic lesions in the dermis that cannot be classified by morphology as either benign naevi (moles) or malignant melanomas because the mass shows features of both.

9. What is malignant melanoma? - AOL

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   Any diagnosis of melanoma is cancer even if the term ‘malignant’ is not used before it.