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Bookmark or Share- Melanoma: Pictures, Stages, Treatment, Survival Rate, and More - HealthlineMelanoma is a specific kind of skin cancer. It begins in skin cells called melanocytes. Melanocytes produce melanin, the substance that gives your skin color. Only about 1 percent of skin cancers...
- Melanoma - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicMelanoma is a kind of skin cancer that starts in the melanocytes. Melanocytes are cells that make the pigment that gives skin its color. The pigment is called melanin. Melanoma typically starts on skin that's often exposed to the sun. This includes the skin on the arms, back, face and legs. Melanoma also can form in the eyes.
- Melanoma: Symptoms, Staging, Treatment, and More - Verywell HealthMelanoma is a skin cancer that arises from a skin cell called a melanocyte, which makes the pigment (melanin) that gives your skin its color. Melanoma can appear in different ways, most commonly as a new spot on the skin or as an already existing mole that changes in color, size, or shape.
- What Is Melanoma Skin Cancer? - American Cancer SocietyMelanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops when melanocytes (the cells that give the skin its tan or brown color) start to grow out of control. Melanoma is much less common than some other types of skin cancers. But melanoma is more dangerous because it’s much more likely to spread to other parts of the body if not found and treated early.
- Melanoma - The Skin Cancer FoundationMelanoma occurs when DNA damage from sunburns or tanning due to UV radiation triggers changes (mutations) in the melanocytes, resulting in uncontrolled cellular growth. About Melanin. Naturally darker-skinned people have more eumelanin and naturally fair-skinned people have more pheomelanin.
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