Environmental exposure to trace elements and risk of cutaneous melanoma

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 458-462

  Vinceti, Marco ^a   Bassissi, Stefania ^a   Malagoli, Carlotta ^a   Pellacani, Giovanni ^a   Alber, Dorothea ^b   Bergomi, Margherita ^a   Seidenari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Case control study; Environmental exposures; Lead; Melanoma; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC; HEAVY METAL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAIL; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SKIN TUMOR;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; METALS, HEAVY; NAILS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 27744465470     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: 14765519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500423     Document Type: Article

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