MELANOMA (melanomata)

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Irregular inflected form: melanomata   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does melanoma mean? 

• MELANOMA (noun)
  The noun MELANOMA has 1 sense:

1. any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes

  Familiarity information: MELANOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELANOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

malignant melanoma; melanoma

Hypernyms ("melanoma" is a kind of...):

skin cancer (a malignant neoplasm of the skin)

 Context examples 

Surgery is the first treatment of all stages of melanoma.

(Melanoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Melan A is an antigen that is upregulated in most melanomas.

(Melan-A VLP Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

AKT3 gene amplification and overexpression are associated with progression of malignant melanoma.

(AKT3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Melanoma antigen recognized by T-cells 1 (118 aa, ~13 kDa) is encoded by the human MLANA gene.

(Melanoma Antigen Recognized by T-Cells 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccines using pieces of the Melanoma Antigen Recognized by T cells 1 are being studied for their ability to boost the immune response to cancer cells in patients with melanoma.

(Melanoma Antigen Recognized by T cells 1, NCI Dictionary)

An allogeneic cancer vaccine composed of a mixture of lethally irradiated whole melanoma cancer cells obtained from four different melanoma cell lines, with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Allogeneic Irradiated Melanoma Cell Vaccine CSF470, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers repeated this experiment using a vaccine that trains immune cells to fight melanomas and found that memory T cells were more protective against tumors in mice receiving less food.

(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)

It may begin in a mole (skin melanoma), but can also begin in other pigmented tissues, such as in the eye or in the intestines.

(Melanoma, NCI Dictionary)

A cancer vaccine derived from two gentically modified human melanoma cell lines with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Allogeneic Melanoma Vaccine AGI-101H, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare melanoma which develops in a pre-existing blue nevus.

(Melanoma Arising from Blue Nevus, NCI Thesaurus)