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Resources from Clinical Key to support Skin Cancer Day

 According to the WHO, one in every three cancers diagnosed is a skin cancer. The incidence of both non-melanoma and melanoma skin cancer has been increasing over the past decades. Currently, between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma skin cancers and 132,000 melanoma skin cancers occur globally each year. Would you like to read more about it?

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Key facts about Skin Cancer from Clinical Key

Elsevier present some resources to help you to share information about skin cancer:

Clinical Key is available to UHNM members of staff via their NHS OpenAthens username. It might be useful if you login to Clinical Key first before trying to access the content.

Selection of journal articles from Clinical Key

Read the Clinical Key clinical overview for Melanoma for an evidence-based summary of the current guidelines and latest advances.

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