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International Symposium: Ozone— Sun—Cancer.—
From May 17 through 20, 1994, a conference will be held in Paris, France, concerning the molecular and cellular mechanisms and prevention of skin cancer. This meeting will be held under the patronage of the "Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale" (INSERM), the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique," the French Society for Photobiology, and the René Touraine Foundation (provisional). The conference is organized by L. Dubertret and R. Santus, and its general secretary is P. Morliere. This meeting will be held at the Institute for Skin Research at Hôpital Saint Louis and University Paris VII. The main topics to be discussed are anthropic changes of atmospheric ozone and solar UV reaching the earth; molecular and cellular mechanisms of solar UV effects on human skin; prediction of the skin responsiveness to solar light; photocarcinogenesis: animal models and epidemiology of human cancers; solar