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melanoma

noun

Definition of melanoma

as in carcinoma

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Recent Examples of melanoma Ridley said that, after the production of Alien, his eldest brother, Frank, got a terminal diagnosis of melanoma. — Jimmy Chin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026 Patients with melanoma that had a high-risk of recurring were given vaccines and immunotherapy as treatments. — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026 This matchup also is designated the Joe Roth Memorial Game, honoring the popular All-America quarterback who died in of melanoma following the 1976 season. — Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2026 Moderna tested its mRNA cancer vaccine in patients with melanoma who had their tumors removed. — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for melanoma

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An avid runner and golfer fit and trim enough to pass for a man a decade younger, the silver-haired Claire was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in 2015 when what looked like a harmless spot on his lip turned out to be cancerous.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
After undergoing surgery to remove the testicle (an orchiectomy), Reeve discovered the mass was embryonal carcinoma.

— Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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Since then researchers have discovered that the Epstein-Barr virus, which is known to cause cancers such as nasal pharyngeal cancers and some forms of lymphoma, is also linked to some stomach cancers and some rarer lymphomas, Clifford says.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026
No cause of death was provided, but the outlet reported that Dasafo had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2010 before going into remission later that year.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of lymphoma

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Amount of recent grant to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to fund the largest global research initiative into the rise of breast cancer rates in young women.

— Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Last year, Manilow revealed that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and that surgery would require him to postpone several performances.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of cancer

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Radiologists are required to compare new scans to prior scans to determine the malignancy risk of each nodule detected.

— Oran Muduroglu, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
The drug, brand name Rasonque, is the first to attack a genetic cause of the aggressive, highly lethal malignancy.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of malignancy

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But at night that process stops, and a coral polyp’s only source of oxygen is the water around it.

— Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
Adults with a history of precancerous colon polyps (adenomas) had gut bacteria that remained different from people who’d never had polyps, and some patterns resembled those seen in colorectal cancer.

— Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 27 May 2026

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