Sun habits in kidney transplant recipients with skin cancer: A case-control study of possible causative factors

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 189-193

  Lindelöf, Bernt ^a   Granath, Fredrik ^b   Dal, Henrik ^d   Brandberg, Yvonne ^a   Adami, Johanna ^c   Ullén, Henrik ^d  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d Department of Cancer Prevention ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Case control; Epidemiology; Kidney transplant; Squamous cell carcinoma; Sun behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN CANCER; SMOKING HABIT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 0038239551     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015550310007193     Document Type: Article

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