Pilot study to screen for skin cancer in flight personnel - occupational medical and sociomedical aspects;Pilotstudie zum hautkrebs-screening bei fliegendem personal unter arbeits- und sozialmedizinischen aspekten

Arbeitsmedizin Sozialmedizin Umweltmedizin

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 510-517

  Völter Mahlknecht, Susanne ^a   Sacher, N ^a   Wegner, I ^b   Schulze Rath, R ^a   Escobar Pinzon L C ^a   Diepgen, T L ^c   Blettner, M ^a   Letzel, S ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Lufthansa AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flight personnel; Layover; Screening for skin cancer; UV exposure

Indexed keywords

AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN CANCER; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

EID: 33751573088     PISSN: 09446052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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