No association between telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes and the risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1043-1045

  Liang, Geyu ^a,d   Qureshi, Abrar A ^a,b   Guo, Qun ^a   De Vivo, Immaculata ^a,c   Han, Jiali ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TELOMERE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, NEOPLASM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TELOMERE;

EID: 79955787184     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0072     Document Type: Article

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