The rate of increase in the numbers of primary sporadic basal cell carcinomas during follow up is associated with age at first presentation

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2051-2054

  Ramachandran, Sudarshan ^a   Fryer, Anthony A ^b   Lovatt, Tracy ^b   Smith, Andrew ^c   Lear, John ^c   Jones, Peter W ^b   Strange, Richard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RATE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TRUNK; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0036949613     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/23.12.2051     Document Type: Review

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