Is sunlight important to melanoma causation?

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 467-468

  Tucker, Margaret A ^a,b  

^a Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNBURN; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CAUSALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 41549148550     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2743     Document Type: Note

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