New insights into the aetiology of scrotal cancer, a nationwide case-control study in the Netherlands

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 65-71

  Verhoeven, R H A ^a   Aben, K K H ^b,c   Van Rossum, M M ^c   Reedijk, A M ^b   Botterweck, A A ^b   Veerbeek, L ^b   Visser, O ^b   Van Der Aa, M A ^b   Ho, V K Y ^b   Coebergh, J W W ^a,d   Kiemeney, L A L M ^b,c  

^a Eindhoven Cancer Registry   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Cancer Registry and Research   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAGET SKIN DISEASE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SARCOMA; SCROTUM CANCER; SCROTUM DISORDER; SEXUALITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUNBATHING; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; REGISTRIES; SCROTUM; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84890553821     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jdv.12056     Document Type: Article

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