Socioeconomic status and non-melanoma skin cancer: A nationwide cohort study of incidence and survival in Denmark

Cancer Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 689-695

  Steding Jessen, M ^a   Birch Johansen, F ^a   Jensen, A ^a   Schuz J ^a   Kjaer S K ^a,b   Dalton, S O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Incidence; Non melanoma skin cancer; Socioeconomic status; Survival

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN CANCER; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLAR RADIATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 78650170321     PISSN: 18777821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2010.06.011     Document Type: Article

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