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Study identifies risk factors for transformation of eye growths into melanoma
Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, August 30th, 2009
"There is strong interest for early detection of choroidal melanoma [a malignant growth], and its differentiation from nevus continues to be the major impediment," the authors write as background information in the article. Benign choroidal nevi and small melanomas share many characteristics, including color, location and size. "The challenge is to identify the single small melanoma among the thousands of choroidal...
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