Skin cancer screening in Okinawa, Japan

Journal of Dermatological Science

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 161-165

  Nagano, Tohru ^a   Ueda, Masato ^a   Suzuki, Takaaki ^a   Naruse, Kazuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Takashi ^a   Taguchi, Masahito ^b   Araki, Keishi ^a   Nakagawa, Kouichi ^a   Nagai, Hiroshi ^a   Hayashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Shaw ^b   Ichihashi, Masamitsu ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Okinawa; Screening; Skin cancer; Ultraviolet light

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOGENESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; KERATOSIS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032909659     PISSN: 09231811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0923-1811(98)00059-0     Document Type: Article

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