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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a component of the World Health Organization (WHO), estimated that there were 160,177 new cases of cutaneous melanoma worldwide in 2002 (1). The IARC also estimated that there were 40,781 deaths due to this cause in 2002 (1).
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Johnson, D.Y., Wadhwa, S., Johnson, F.E. (2013). Cutaneous Melanoma. In: Johnson, F., et al. Patient Surveillance After Cancer Treatment. Current Clinical Oncology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-969-7_49
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