Melan-A protein
A protein found on normal melanocytes (cells that make the pigment melanin) in the skin and in the retina.
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62 matchesmelanin
Melanin is the pigment responsible for skin, hair, and eye color that also helps absorb and limit damage from ultraviolet light.
Read definitionmelanocortin 1 receptor
A protein found in skin and eye cells that make melanin (a pigment that gives color to the skin and helps protect it from damage by ultraviolet light).
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A cell in the skin and eyes that produces and contains the pigment called melanin.
Read definitionmelanoma
Far less common than the everyday skin cancers but responsible for most deaths from them, because it spreads while it is still small.
Read definitionmelanoma in situ
The earliest recognized stage of melanoma, still trapped in the outer skin layer where no blood or lymph vessels reach.
Read definitionmelanoma vaccine
A cancer vaccine prepared from human melanoma cancer cells.
Read definitionmelanotropin receptor
A protein found in skin and eye cells that make melanin (a pigment that gives color to the skin and helps protect it from damage by ultraviolet light).
Read definitionamelanotic melanoma
Amelanotic melanoma is a form of skin cancer that lacks the dark pigment typical of melanoma, often appearing pink or red instead.
Read definitionClark level I melanoma
Melanoma that is found only in the epidermis (outer layer of skin).
Read definitionClark level II melanoma
Melanoma that has spread from the epidermis (outer layer of skin) down into the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis).
Read definitionClark level III melanoma
Melanoma 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).
Read definitionClark level IV melanoma
Melanoma that has spread down into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).
Read definitionClark level V melanoma
Melanoma that has spread down into the subcutaneous tissue (tissue beneath the skin).
Read definitiondesmoplastic melanoma
A melanoma that breaks its own rules: colorless, scar-like, easily dismissed as harmless, and inclined to creep outward along nerves.
Read definitionintraocular melanoma
A rare cancer of melanocytes (cells that produce the pigment melanin) found in the eye.
Read definitionmalignant melanoma of soft parts
A soft tissue tumor that begins in a tendon (tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or to another structure).
Read definitionnonmelanoma carcinoma in situ
Abnormal cells are found in the lower part of the epidermis (the outer layer of the skin).
Read definitionnonmelanoma skin cancer
The commonest cancers in people with pale skin, grouped together by what they are not rather than by what they are.
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Having to do with skin cancer that forms in the lower part of the epidermis (the outer layer of the skin) or in squamous cells, but not in melanocytes (skin cells that make pigment).
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