Risk of basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers after ionizing radiation therapy

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 88, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 1848-1853

  Karagas, Margaret R ^a   McDonald, Jill A ^b   Greenberg, E Robert ^a   Stukel, Thérèse A ^a   Weiss, Julia E ^a   Baron, John A ^a   Stevens, Marguerite M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b University of Vermont   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TINEA CAPITIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030463164     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/88.24.1848     Document Type: Article

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