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Public awareness of skin cancer: results of a large national survey in Ireland

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  1. St James’s Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland

    S. Menzies & P. Ormond

  2. The Marie Keating Foundation, Dublin, Ireland

    H. Forristal, C. Hennessy & L. Yeates

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This study was funded by the Marie Keating Foundation.

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All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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Participation in the survey was on a voluntary basis. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Menzies, S., Forristal, H., Hennessy, C. et al. Public awareness of skin cancer: results of a large national survey in Ireland. Ir J Med Sci 186, 73–74 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-016-1481-z

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