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Editorial
. 2006 Apr 29;332(7548):987-8.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7548.987.

Cure of cutaneous melanoma

J Meirion Thomas, Victoria Giblin
Editorial

Cure of cutaneous melanoma

J Meirion Thomas et al. BMJ. .
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Numbers of deaths and age specific mortality rates by sex, malignant melanoma, United Kingdom, 2004. Reproduced with permission of Cancer Research UK (http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/types/melanoma/mortality/)
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Superficial spreading melanoma
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