Nonmelanoma skin cancer: Is the incidence really increasing among patients younger than 40? A reexamination using 25 years of U.S. outpatient data

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1473-1479

  Bivens, Mary Margaret ^a   Bhosle, Monali ^d   Balkrishnan, Rajesh ^d   Camacho, Fabian T ^c   Feldman, Steven R ^a,b,c   Fleischer Jr , Alan B ^a,c  

^a Center for Dermatology Research   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology ^*  (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; ONSET AGE; OUTPATIENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; MINNESOTA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33845590137     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32358.x     Document Type: Article

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