Sentence examples for melanoma from inspiring English sources
'melanoma' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe a type of skin cancer, usually caused by excessive exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. For example, "John was diagnosed with melanoma and is currently undergoing treatment for it."
noun
A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.
Usually a malignant melanoma has an irregular edge (sometimes with "satellite spots" around it), and the depth of the surface colour varies.
"However, in recent years, a number of breakthrough treatments that can potentially significantly improve the prognosis for some people with malignant melanoma have become available.
Developed by Merck, pembrolizumab will be used to treat advanced melanoma, a skin cancer.
Two years ago Bristol-Myers reported that nivolumab shrank tumours in 28% of melanoma patients, 27% of people with kidney cancer and 18% of those with advanced lung cancer.
In America a melanoma drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb costs nearly $120,000 for a course of treatment.
That drug, for melanoma (a skin cancer), is now sold in America for $120,000 for a full course of treatment.There are risks, however.
The shadows are tumours from secondary melanoma, one of the most aggressive cancers known.
Roche's vemurafenib attacks advanced melanoma by blocking the mutated form of a gene, B-RAF.
In Tina Fey's memoir, for example, she explains that she felt comfortable joking about Bristol Palin's pregnancy (for the skit available here) because so many people had embraced that narrative as a pro-life credential for Sarah Palin, but that a drafted joke about John McCain's melanoma was "too rough" because the studio audience, in dress rehearsals, hadn't found it funny.
Cigarette-vending machines and coin-operated sunbeds face curbs in an attempt to make it harder for youngsters to smoke or fry themselves to a melanoma-inducing crisp.
Antoni Ribas of the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues reported to the meeting that the tumours of more than a third of the 135 advanced-melanoma patients whom they had treated with it have shrunk.
