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☆Meeting at which the work was presented
☆Oral presentation at BAPRAS Winter meeting in London. (December 2010).
☆Oral presentation at the 7th International melanoma research congress and the 4th melanoma and skin cancer centre meeting in Sydney, Australia (November 2010).
