skin cancer

1. 1.

   a malignant neoplasm of the skin

   Broadercarcinoma

   Narrowercancroidepitheliomamelanoma

Questions about skin cancer

What does skin cancer mean?

skin cancer means "a malignant neoplasm of the skin".

Is skin cancer a common word?

skin cancer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.