European Journal of Cancer
Volume 44, Issue 1 , Pages 12-15 , January 2008

The effect of solar UVB doses and vitamin D production, skin cancer action spectra, and smoking in explaining links between skin cancers and solid tumours

Received 6 September 2007 ,Accepted 19 September 2007.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2007.09.009

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