Left-sided excess in the laterality of cutaneous melanoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 556-558

  Bulliard, Jean Luc ^a   Ess, Silvia ^b   Bordoni, Andrea ^b   Konzelmann, Isabelle ^b   Levi, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ARM; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 42549120843     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.4.556     Document Type: Letter

References (7)

1. Garfinkel L, Craig L, Seidman H. An appraisal of left and right breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1959;23:617-631.
2. Roychoudhuri R, Putcha V, Moller H. Cancer and laterality: a study of the five major paired organs (UK). Cancer Causes Control. 2006;17(5):655-662.
3. Foley P, Lanzer D, Marks R. Are solar keratoses more common on the driver's side? Br Med J. 1986;293(6538):18.
4. Singer RS, Hamilton TA, Voorhees JJ, Griffiths CE. Association of asymmetrical facial photodamage with automobile driving. Arch Dermatol. 1994;130(1):121-123.
5. Bulliard J-L, De Weck D, Fisch T, Bordoni A, Levi F. Detailed site distribution of melanoma and sunlight exposure: aetiological patterns from a Swiss series [published online ahead of print January 20, 2007]. Ann Oncol. 2007; 18(4):789-794. doi:10.1093/annonc/mdl1490.
6. Bulliard J-L, Levi F. Site misclassification of melanomas in the shoulder region: an issue not to be "shrugged at"? Arch Dermatol. 2005;141(8):1047-1049.
7. Levi F, Te VC, Randimbison L, Erler G, La Vecchia C. Trends in skin cancer incidence in Vaud: an update, 1976-1998. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2001;10(4):371-373.