Melanoma: What are the gaps in our knowledge?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 0878-0880

  Rees, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH; MORBIDITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TUMOR;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 46349093671     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050122     Document Type: Article

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