Demographic characteristics, pigmentary and cutaneous risk factors for squamous cell carcinoma of the skin: A case-control study

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 628-634

  English, Dallas R ^a   Armstrong, Bruce K ^b   Kricker, Anne ^c   Winter, Michael G ^a   Heenan, Peter J ^a   Randell, Peter L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^c National Breast Cancer Centre   (Australia)

^d SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LENTIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN COLOR; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0031782481     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980529)76:5<628::AID-IJC3>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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