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• n  any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes

• John McCain's second bout with melanoma reminds all of us to take skin cancer seriously.
• The result was Canvaxin, a vaccine against aggressive melanoma that was loaded up with 20 different tumor-specific components of melanoma, teaching the body new ways to recognize .
• His bout with melanoma after the 2000 campaign makes his health and his age election issues today.

• malignant melanoma

News & Articles

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• Research and Markets: The Global Melanoma Therapeutics Market to Grow At A CAGR Of 15.83 Percent over the Period 2012 ...
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Melanoma Therapeutics Market 2012-2016" report to
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• Melanoma drugs extend life for some patients
  Researchers will present studies of three promising new melanoma therapies today in Chicago.
  June 11, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• Diabetes drug points the way to overcoming drug resistance in melanoma
  Despite the success of melanoma-targeting drugs, tumors inevitably become drug resistant and return, more aggressive than before. Researchers now describe how they increase the effectiveness of anti-melanoma drugs by combining anticancer therapies with diabetes drugs. Their studies, conducted in cell and animal models of melanoma, demonstrate that the combined therapy could destroy a subset of ...
  June 11, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• John McCain in FOXNews
  I was in a battle not a war, like some of the people - brave Americans that Lance just pointed out, but I was in a battle with melanoma and I know : somewhat at least to a small degree how tough that battle can be,McCain said. "We all know...
• Marcia Cross in PR Newswire (press release)
  There was and is no evidence of recurrence or metastasis - meaning spread - of the invasive melanoma nearly eight years after the surgery. : The prognosis for Sen. McCain is good because the time of greatest risk for recurrence of invasive melanoma... David Eckstein http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eckstein&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE7bDC013b7Sw8bACJflg5IYGcNeA Kansas City Star http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/634047.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG-i-WAxFCpFuNB7IYbIkJgjjCoQQ May 23, 2008 62589 83406 melanoma (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070301/NYTH196 ) I'm proud to be part of a cause that is near and dear to my heart," explains actress Marcia Cross. "Having had two family members suffer from melanoma, I've come to understand...