Screening for cutaneous melanoma by skin self-examination

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-23

  Berwick, Marianne ^a,b   Begg, Colin B ^b   Fine, Judith A ^a   Roush, George C ^c   Barnhill, Raymond L ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Cancer Prevention Research Institute   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SELF EXAMINATION; SKIN CANCER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-EXAMINATION; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030028371     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/88.1.17     Document Type: Article

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