What is Melanoma?

- "Definition of melanoma: A form of cancer that begins in melanocytes (cells that make the pigment melanin). It may begin in a mole (skin melanoma), but can also begin in other pigmented tissues, such as in the eye or in the intestines."
(http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/melanoma)

- Melanoma, the third most common skin cancer, is more dangerous and causes the most deaths. (http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/statistics/index.htm