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Pocket guide to malignant melanoma /

Melanoma is the most life-threatening skin cancer and is linked with excessive sun exposure. Its incidence in the UK is on the increase and it affects a disproportionate number of young people. Preventing and halting the increase in melanoma incidence by the year 2005 is an important "Health of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buchan, John, M.D
Other Authors: Roberts, Dafydd Lloyd, Hawk, J. L. M. (John L. M.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Science, ©2000.
Subjects:
Melanoma > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Melanoma.
Handbook.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • 1 Epidemiology and Aetiology: Where, Who and Why
  • 2 Diagnosis: Suspicions, Scoring and Special Diagnostic Aids
  • 3 Differential Diagnosis: Moles and Much More
  • 4 Histopathology and Natural History
  • 5 Surgery: No Margin for Error
  • 6 Follow-up: What Happens Now?
  • 7 Second Line Therapies: What Happens Next?
  • 8 Prevention and Early Detection: Theory and Practice
  • Index.