Shedding light on melanoma.
Not just confined to sunny places, the incidence of melanoma has been rising in all fair-skinned populations around the world. How much is known about the causes of this disease, and can this knowledge be applied to preventive strategies?
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University of Oxford. daveW@qimr.edu.au
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