Melanoma prevention in Switzerland: Where do we stand?;Prévention du mélanome en Suisse: Où en sommes-nous?

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 2, Issue 63, 2006, Pages 1122-1125

  Bulliard, Jean Luc ^a   Panizzon, Renato G ^b   Levi, Fabio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CAUCASIAN; DEATH; EUROPE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN CANCER; SWITZERLAND;

HUMANS; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33749421521     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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