Socio-economic class, rurality and risk of cutaneous melanoma by site and gender in Sweden

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pérez Gómez, Beatriz ^a,b   Aragonés, Nuria ^a,b   Gustavsson, Per ^c   Lope, Virginia ^a,b   López Abente, Gonzalo ^a,b   Pollán, Marina ^a,b  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLID TUMOR; SWEDEN; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADULT; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN;

EID: 40849136407     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-33     Document Type: Article

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