Melanomas

Lerner was interested in melanomas, cancers of the pigment cells of human skin; he was curious to find out if there was any possible connection between this skin-lightening substance found in pineals and cancer. ❋ Unknown (1966)

HUNTER: You know clinic says they think it may be the real reason why people are getting more melanomas, which is a very deadly form of cancer. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Those kind of cancers, called melanomas, that start in black moles in the skin or cancers that arise in the kidney. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Previous studies had implicated these protein interactions in the metastasis of other tumors such as melanomas and breast cancers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(such as melanomas and squamous cell carcinomas), fungal granulomas, and reactions to foreign bodies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the study, so many of the "nonevaluable" lesions turned out be melanomas precisely because doctors were focusing MelaFind on lesions they considered highly suspicious even though the lesions were too big or oddly situated to fit the device's design criteria. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

Some melanomas — a more serious form of skin cancer that kills 8,700 Americans a year — also begin as precancerous moles, called dysplastic nevi, Rigel says. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Such a study, to find any melanomas at all, would have to be impossibly large. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

No word on how many melanomas the Getty serves up every afternoon with its lone inconvenient and antiquated foodcart. ❋ Mat Gleason (2011)

An adviser to the small company, a world-famous dermatologist, pipes up: "Wound healing is cool, but if you really want to do something for humanity, help us detect melanomas." ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

These melanomas won't just appear spontaneously you know. ❋ Tallulah Morehead (2011)

One in six of these lesions, subsequent biopsy showed, were melanomas. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

For one thing, Dr. Green says she can gauge roughly how close a woman is to menopause from the color of her vaginal walls, and says she has occasionally spotted malignant melanomas. ❋ Melinda Beck (2011)

In a clinical trial involving 23 practitioners around the country, MelaFind caught 98% of melanomas among the targeted suspicious lesions, while equaling or besting the top docs in avoiding unnecessary biopsies. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

Put another way: Doctors would have to greatly increase their rate of unnecessary biopsies to match MelaFind in catching melanomas. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

Even if she scoffs at people who dedicate their lives to understanding, preventing, and treating skin cancer, you would think that she would use her own common sense and see how her running mate's sun exposure caused him to suffer from multiple melanomas. ❋ Unknown (2010)