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References 1. Rampen FHJ, Nelemans PJ, Verbeek ALM. Is water pollution a cause of cutaneous melanoma? Epidemiology 1992; 3: 263-5. 2. Nelemans PJ, Rampen FHJ, Groenendal H, et al. Swimming and the risk of cutaneous melanoma. Melanoma Res 1994; 4: 281-6. 3. Nelemans PJ. Environmental risk indicators for cutaneous melanoma. PhD Thesis, Nijmegen, 1993. 4. Rooij M de. Volunteer melanoma screening, pros and cons. PhD Thesis, Maastricht, 1997. Melanoma and the sun Han J. van der Rhee Han van der Rhee (1946) had been trained as a dermatologist under Machiel Karel Polano at the Leiden University Medical Center between 1974 and 1979. During the same period he researched his thesis on blood monocytes and their differentiation into macrophages, epitheloid cells and multinucleated giant cells.[1] After qualification, he started working as a consultant dermatologist at the Municipal Hospital in The Hague, now known as The Hague Teaching Hospital, the same institution where his mentor Polano had started his derma- tological career. His scientific interest then moved from electron microscopy to dermatological oncology and therapy of skin diseases, particularly psoriasis. He designed and performed one of the first randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on combination therapy in psoriasis.[2] In 1980 he was co-founder of one of the first Dutch regional working parties on skin cancer. For more than twenty years he was a member of the Dutch National Melanoma Working Party. From 1989-1992 he launched ‘de Sproetenbus’ (the Freckle Bus); a series of skin cancer awareness campaigns that attracted much national and international media attention. Scientifically his interest in dermatological oncology resulted in a large number of publications on the epidemiology of melanoma. He was particularly interested in the relationship between skin cancer and sun exposure.[3,4] In recent years this interest has extended to the effects of sunlight on health issues other than skin disease.[5,6] Although he ceased practising as a dermato- logist in 2011, he remains active as a reviewer, a consultant to the Dutch Cancer Society and as a writer of both scientific and popular publications on the effects of sunlight on health. 165 The Freckle Bus. BWEADVSMGFINCORR:Opmaak 1 21-07-2014 17:41 Pagina 165