Epidemiology of cutaneous malignant melanoma

Skin Cancer Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 179-201

  Moan, Johan ^a   Porojnicu, Alina Carmen ^b,c   Dahlback, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Institute for Cancer Research   (Norway)

^c CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

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