AccScience Publishing / EJMO / Volume 8 / Issue 1 / DOI: 10.14744/ejmo.2024.65237
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

A Fortunate Eruption of Malignancies: Nivolumab-Induced Squamous Cell Carcinomas

Milan van Ammers1,2 Anthony Hamilton1 Malini Sivasaththivel2 Antoinette Ciconte2 Phillip Parente1
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1 Department of Oncology, Eastern Health, Melbourne, Australia
2 Department of Dermatology, Eastern Health, Melbourne, Australia
EJMO 2024, 8(1), 106–107; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2024.65237
Submitted: 15 September 2023 | Revised: 29 November 2023 | Accepted: 2 December 2023 | Published: 6 March 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Conflict of interest
None declared.
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