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Fast-growing melanomas give clues to severity

Contents Treating Melanoma (Skin Cancer #8) They enrolled 404 consecutive patients with invasive primary cutaneous melanomas. The patients were interviewed personally, or on the phone by trained interviewers, and were requested about census, risks, sun exposures, and tumor characteristics at presentation, for example pigmentation, shape, symmetry, border, texture, and signs and symptoms for example bleeding, …

Don’t ignore melanomas

Internal melanomas "may cause profuse sweating, neurologic deficits, colic, respiratory system difficulty, or local inflammation leading with other clinical signs or problems within the larynx, guttural pouches, nerve trunks, chest," states Graves. Internal tumors may also hinder other body functions, states Robertson. "We view colic with melanomas within the gut, heart disease with melanomas around …