eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | melanoma, malignant |
| Comorbidity | C0220633|uveal melanoma |
| Sentences | 4 |
| PubMedID- 25904122 | The prevalence of cutaneous melanoma was increased in patients with uveal melanoma, but the lifetime prevalence of other primary cancers was not appreciably increased. |
| PubMedID- 23981010 | We have compared epidemiological and genetic evidences of the potential role of uv radiation in uveal melanoma with data on cutaneous melanoma. |
| PubMedID- 23825798 | Lack of gnaq and gna11 germ-line mutations in familial melanoma pedigrees with uveal melanoma or blue nevi. |
| PubMedID- 24653816 | This concept is supported by recent studies that have shown circulating melanoma cells in patients with uveal melanoma independent of tumor size, type of treatment, or length of follow-up.10 therefore, circulating melanoma cells are thought to colonize in distant organs, form micrometastases, and remain dormant while sporadically seeding tumor cells into the circulating blood. |
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