Malignant tumours and psoriasis: Climatotherapy at the Dead Sea

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1088-1091

  Frentz, G ^a,b   Olsen, Jørgen H ^c   Avrach, W W ^b  

^a The Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b Panopticon Dermatological Center   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climatotherapy; Cohort study; Dead Sea; Non melanoma skin cancer; Psoriasis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CLIMATOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HELIOTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PSORIASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033399423     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1999.03161.x     Document Type: Article

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