Mortality in Danish patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer, 1978-2001

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 419-425

  Jensen, A O ^a   Bautz, A ^b   Olesen, A B ^a   Karagas, M R ^c   Sorensen H T ^a   Friis, S ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Cause specific mortality; Registry study; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUICIDE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 47549094109     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: 13652133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2008.08698.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Jensen AO, Olesen AB, Dethlefsen C, Sorensen HT. Ten year mortality in a cohort of nonmelanoma skin cancer patients in Denmark. J Invest Dermatol 2006 126 : 2539 41.
2. Storm HH, Engholm G. Relative survival of Danish cancer patients diagnosed 1981 to 1997 and followed to 2001. A status report. Ugeskr Laeger 2002 164 : 2855 64 In Danish S, Salo H, Teppo L. Basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin in Finland. Site distribution and patient survival. Int J Dermatol 1989 28 : 445 50.
3. Kahn HS, Tatham LM, Patel AV et al. Increased cancer mortality following a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer. JAMA 1998 280 : 910 12.
4. Preston DS, Stern RS. Nonmelanoma cancers of the skin. N Engl J Med 1992 327 : 1649 62.
5. Rothman KJ. Epidemiology: An Introduction. New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
6. Li CY, Sung FC. A review of the healthy worker effect in occupational epidemiology. Occup Med (Lond) 1999 49 : 225 9.
7. Storm HH, Michelsen EV, Clemmensen IH, Pihl J. The Danish Cancer Registry - history, content, quality and use. Dan Med Bull 1997 44 : 535 9.
8. Jensen AO, Olesen AB, Dethlefsen C, Sorensen HT. Do incident and new subsequent cases of non-melanoma skin cancer registered in a Danish prospective cohort study have different 10-year mortality? Cancer Detect Prev 2007 31 : 352 8.
9. Frentz G. General skin cancer. Quantity, treatment and quality. Ugeskr Laeger 1996 158 : 7202 In Danish S. Immortal time bias in observational studies of drug effects. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2007 16 : 241 9.
10. Walker AM. Observation and Inference: An Introduction to the Methods of Epidemiology. Newton Lower Falls, MA : Epidemiology Resources, Inc., 1991.
11. Rothman KJ, Greenland S. Modern Epidemiology, 2nd edn. Hagertown, MD : Lippencott-Raven, 1998.
12. Juel K, Helweg-Larsen K. The Danish registers of causes of death. Dan Med Bull 1999 46 : 354 7.
13. Frank L. Epidemiology. When an entire country is a cohort. Science 2000 287 : 2398 9.
14. Marcil I, Stern RS. Risk of developing a subsequent nonmelanoma skin cancer in patients with a history of nonmelanoma skin cancer: a critical review of the literature and meta-analysis. Arch Dermatol 2000 136 : 1524 30.
15. Pappas G, Queen S, Hadden W, Fisher G. The increasing disparity in mortality between socioeconomic groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986. N Engl J Med 1993 329 : 103 9.
16. Huisman M, Kunst AE, Andersen O et al. Socioeconomic inequalities in mortality among elderly people in 11 European populations. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004 58 : 468 75.
17. Kunst AE, Groenhof F, Mackenbach JP, Health EW. Occupational class and cause specific mortality in middle aged men in 11 European countries: comparison of population based studies. EU Working Group on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health. BMJ 1998 316 : 1636 42.
18. Mackenbach JP, Bos V, Andersen O et al. Widening socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in six Western European countries. Int J Epidemiol 2003 32 : 830 7.
19. Hemmingsson T, Lundberg I. Can large relative mortality differences between socio-economic groups among Swedish men be explained by risk indicator-associated social mobility? Eur J Public Health 2005 15 : 518 22.
20. Auvinen A, Karjalainen S, Pukkala E. Social class and cancer patient survival in Finland. Am J Epidemiol 1995 142 : 1089 102.
21. Lurie SJ, Gawinski B, Pierce D, Rousseau SJ. Seasonal affective disorder. Am Fam Physician 2006 74 : 1521 4.
22. Muff Christensen ML, Yousaf U, Engholm G, Storm HH. Increased suicide risk among Danish women with non-melanoma skin cancer, 1971-1999. Eur J Cancer Prev 2006 15 : 266 8.
23. Karagas MR, Stukel TA, Greenberg ER et al. Risk of subsequent basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the skin among patients with prior skin cancer. Skin Cancer Prevention Study Group. JAMA 1992 267 : 3305 10.
24. Jensen AO, Olesen AB, Dethlefsen C et al. Chronic diseases requiring hospitalization and risk of non-melanoma skin cancers - a population based study from Denmark. J Invest Dermatol 2008 128 : 926 31.
25. Sorensen HT, Thulstrup AM, Mellemkjar L et al. Long-term survival and cause-specific mortality in patients with cirrhosis of the liver: a nationwide cohort study in Denmark. J Clin Epidemiol 2003 56 : 88 93.
26. Sorensen HT, Friis S, Olsen JH et al. Risk of liver and other types of cancer in patients with cirrhosis: a nationwide cohort study in Denmark. Hepatology 1998 28 : 921 5.
27. Honda KS. HIV and skin cancer. Dermatol Clin 2006 24 : 521 30, vii.
28. Jackson ML, Neuzil KM, Thompson WW et al. The burden of community-acquired pneumonia in seniors: results of a population-based study. Clin Infect Dis 2004 39 : 1642 50.
29. Kaplan V, Clermont G, Griffin MF et al. Pneumonia: still the old man's friend? Arch Intern Med 2003 163 : 317 23.
30. Marston BJ, Plouffe JF, File TM Jr et al. Incidence of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization. Results of a population-based active surveillance Study in Ohio. The Community-Based Pneumonia Incidence Study Group. Arch Intern Med 1997 157 : 1709 18.
31. Thomsen RW, Riis A, Norgaard M et al. Rising incidence and persistently high mortality of hospitalized pneumonia: a 10-year population-based study in Denmark. J Intern Med 2006 259 : 410 17.
32. Frisch M, Melbye M. New primary cancers after squamous cell skin cancer. Am J Epidemiol 1995 141 : 916 22.
33. Munoz N, Castellsague X, de Gonzalez AB, Gissmann L. Chapter 1: HPV in the etiology of human cancer. Vaccine 2006 24S (3 S1 10.
34. Struijk L, Hall L, van der Meijden E et al. Markers of cutaneous human papillomavirus infection in individuals with tumor-free skin, actinic keratoses, and squamous cell carcinoma. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006 15 : 529 35.
35. Nindl I, Gottschling M, Stockfleth E. Human papillomaviruses and non-melanoma skin cancer: basic virology and clinical manifestations. Dis Markers 2007 23 : 247 59.
36. Gjersoe P, Andersen SE, Molbak AG et al. Reliability of death certificates. The reproducibility of the recorded causes of death in patients admitted to departments of internal medicine Ugeskr Laeger 1998 160 : 5030 4 In Danish CE, Wichmann B. Causes of death and death certificates. An evaluation of the diagnosis in 373 death certificates Ugeskr Laeger 1980 142 : 257 61 In Danish ].