Non-melanoma skin cancer occurring in patients treated with PUVA five to ten years after first treatment

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 120-124

  Stern, Robert S ^a,b,c,d   Lange, Rudee ^a,b   Members of the Photochemotherapy Follow up Study, ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXSALEN;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PUVA THERAPY; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023758687     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12464137     Document Type: Article

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