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Melanoma Biomarker
Skin cancer in melanocytes is termed melanoma, which is frequently centralized in a nevus or mole. A host of molecular proteins can be utilized as measurable phenotypic parameters to characterize or indicate the disease state of melanoma. 2005 (NCI Thesaurus)
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