SKIN CANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skin cancer mean? 

• SKIN CANCER (noun)
  The noun SKIN CANCER has 1 sense:

1. a malignant neoplasm of the skin

  Familiarity information: SKIN CANCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIN CANCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A malignant neoplasm of the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("skin cancer" is a kind of...):

carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skin cancer"):

cancroid; squamous cell carcinoma (the most common form of skin cancer)

epithelioma (a malignant tumor of the epithelial tissue)

malignant melanoma; melanoma (any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes)

 Context examples 

Psoralen and ultraviolet A therapy may increase the risk of getting skin cancer.

(Methoxsalen With Ultraviolet A Therapy, NCI Dictionary)

Skin cancer that has spread down through the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis) but not into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).

(Clark level III skin cancer, NCI Dictionary)

Mitotic rate is used to help find the stage of melanoma (a type of skin cancer) and other types of cancer.

(Mitotic rate, NCI Dictionary)

A substance being studied in the treatment of advanced melanoma (a type of skin cancer) and other types of cancer.

(CDK inhibitor SCH 727965, NCI Dictionary)

But certain types can increase your risk of skin cancer.

(Birthmarks, NIH)

This may be from a primary skin cancer, or from a cancer at a distant site.

(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Skin, NCI Thesaurus)

Skin cancer that has spread down into the subcutaneous tissue (tissue beneath the skin).

(Clark level V skin cancer, NCI Dictionary)

Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer.

(Melanoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A drug used in the treatment of skin cancer that has spread.

(Elesclomol sodium, NCI Dictionary)

The CRKL gene is overexpressed in certain types of cancer such as breast, colon, lung, ovarian and skin cancer.

(CRKL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)