Preposition: of

• skin: It is more common than cervical cancer in women or melanoma of the skin.

Converse of object

• treat: Research into new ways of treating melanoma is going on all the time.

• develop: Can develop a malignant melanoma in very rare cases.

• cause: Scientists do not know what causes melanoma in the eye.

• include: On the next page there are some data on different forms of cancer including melanoma.

• call: Skin cancer The most serious form of skin cancer is called malignant melanoma.

Adjective modifier

• malignant: Can develop a malignant melanoma in very rare cases.

• uveal: An example of ( 2 ) would be a study of risk factors for uveal melanoma, or corneal ulcers.

• metastatic: AB - The therapy of metastatic melanoma has not given satisfactory results.

• choroidal: RESULTS: In all four cases, the patients were referred with the diagnosis of a small choroidal melanoma.

• cutaneous: Location of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with cutaneous melanoma: new insights into lymphatic anatomy.

• ocular: Ocular melanoma is a cancer tumor created by melanocytes cells in the eye.

Modifies a noun

• metastasis: Thirty-one patients had a sentinel lymph node positive for melanoma metastasis.

• antigen: Modifications in the anchor binding residues have resulted in higher affinity binding and better T-cell responses for several melanoma antigens ( Ref.

• vaccine: Note, however, that since no melanoma vaccine as yet has FDA approval, the first criterion would not be met.

• cell: The chemical appears to be effective against melanoma cells.

• skin: Died of non melanoma skin cancer in England & Wales What causes skin cancer?

• incidence: Increasing popularity of oversees holidays is partly blamed for an alarming rise in malignant melanoma incidence.

Noun used with modifier

• skin: Mouth cancers have a higher proportion of deaths per number of cases than breast cancer, cervical cancer or skin melanoma.

• cell: One patient who died of metastases had epithelioid cell type melanoma.