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Favorable trends in melanoma incidence: can we claim credit?

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    Dallas R. English & Elizabeth Milne

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English, D.R., Milne, E. Favorable trends in melanoma incidence: can we claim credit?. Cancer Causes Control 10, 403–405 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008985019082

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