Skin cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoproliferative diseases: Is sunlight to blame?

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-41

  Cliff, S ^a   Mortimer, P S ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0032934059     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2230.1999.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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