Tattoos, inks, and cancer

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Kluger, Nicolas ^a   Koljonen, Virve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATOACANTHOMA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SKIN LYMPHOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TATTOOING;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COLORING AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INK; KERATOACANTHOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TATTOOING;

EID: 84859130576     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(11)70340-0     Document Type: Review

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