title: Melanoma: 1. Clinical characteristics.
abstract: The disease is perhaps the clearest instance of a cancer for which early treatment is crucial. Increasing knowledge of risk factors (including brief, intense sun exposure and sunburn damage early in life) aids the identification of persons at highest risk--one reason for physicians not to be pessimistic about the value of urging patients to limit their sun exposure.
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado, Denver.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hoffman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yohn
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Norris
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D012307:Risk Factors; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology* / Q000517:prevention & control