Risk factors for malignant melanoma in white and non-white/non-African American populations: The multiethnic cohort

Cancer Prevention Research

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 423-434

  Park, Sungshim Lani ^a   Le Marchand, Loïc ^a   Wilkens, Lynne R ^a   Kolonel, Laurence N ^a   Henderson, Brian E ^b   Zhang, Zuo Feng ^c,d   Setiawan, Veronica Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859475464     PISSN: 19406207     EISSN: 19406215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0460     Document Type: Article

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