Talk:Cure for Cancer/@comment-3395438-20131130202116/@comment-24930355-20140511183512

Your logic is nice, but you don't have one detail right. Melanoma does not require presence of melanim and sadly has been diagnosed also in albino people. It is called melanoma, because the cancer cells originated from melanocytes. The transformation to cancer cell is due to mutations in DNA induced by UV light, and it is not proven it has something to do with melanin. If anything, I would believe that the lack of protective melanin makes it even easier for albinos to get skin cancer. Believe me, I'm studying oncology. Otherwise good thinking :)