An ecological study of cancer mortality rates in California, 1950-64, with respect to solar UVB and smoking indices

Dermato-Endocrinology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 176-182

  Grant, William B ^a  

^a Sunlight Nutrition and Health Research Center (SUNARC)   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality rates; Ecological study; Nonmelanoma skin cancer; Smoking; Ultraviolet B; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; COLON CANCER; ECOLOGY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LATITUDE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; SMOKING; STOMACH CANCER; THYROID CANCER; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84865166563     PISSN: 19381972     EISSN: 19381980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/derm.19834     Document Type: Article

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