How to Use melanoma in a Sentence

melanoma

noun
  • These are all metastases of my melanoma.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
  • His melanoma scare placed more shine on sunshine.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • People who have survived melanoma will urge you to do just that.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 24 May 2021
  • His instincts were right—the spot was in the early stages of melanoma.
    — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 19 Aug. 2025
  • His great-grandfather passed away from melanoma.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Hell, it's even been linked to lower risk for some cancers, like melanoma and prostate.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Cruse has suffered from melanoma and lost part of his larynx to cancer.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
  • Two years later, a lump on his neck turned out to be another melanoma.
    — Jessica Mudditt, CNN, 8 May 2018
  • Nope; if this was melanoma, it would be limited to a single nail.
    — Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • But studies show that a person with many moles has a higher risk for melanoma.
    — Madelyn Fernstrom, NBC News, 22 June 2018
  • Worried that the mole on your forehead might be early-stage melanoma?
    — Ken Denmead, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2010
  • The biopsy came back as Stage IA melanoma.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • The mole on his forehead came back positive for melanoma.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • More than 90% of melanoma tumors contain at least one of the four.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 19 June 2021
  • If genes were all that was needed for cancer, the fish would explode with melanoma.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2016
  • In the last couple of decades, cases of melanoma alone have risen 19%.
    — Yesenia Almonte, Woman's Day, 24 June 2014
  • These, along with melanoma, make up the three malignant skin cancers.
    — New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2025
  • And, of course, laying in the sun for any amount of time increases your risk of melanoma.
    — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 4 Feb. 2022
  • There is a changing dark streak on the nail, which could be a sign of melanoma (a type of skin cancer).
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 18 Feb. 2025
  • But tragedy struck again when Snider watched his brother-in-law lose his battle with melanoma.
    — Richard Morin, azcentral, 10 Mar. 2020
  • As a result, men often miss the changing moles that are the hallmark of melanoma.
    — Andrea Atkins, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The first signs of melanoma often appear as changes in an existing mole.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Though not the most common form of skin cancer, melanoma is the most aggressive.
    — Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2018
  • That includes tumors found in the lung, colon, breasts, ovaries, and — in cases of melanoma — skin.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
  • Three months after he was born in Palm Springs, his father died of melanoma.
    — Brian Martin, Oc Register, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Still, Vaughn said, people of color must be careful of melanoma of the nail.
    — Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The device could one day improve screening for the cancer melanoma.
    — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 12 June 2019
  • Acral melanoma, in particular, is a subset of melanoma that grows on the palms and soles.
    — Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Then, she was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic melanoma.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • But that figure drops down to 32% once the melanoma has spread to other organs.
    — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2023

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