Ultraviolet radiation and cutaneous malignant melanoma

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 810, Issue , 2014, Pages 359-374

  Moan, Johan Emilian ^a,b   Baturaite, Zivile ^a   Dahlback, Arne ^b   Porojnicu, Alina Carmen ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; MORTALITY RATE; NEWBORN; NORWAY; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE TUMOR DENSITY; SKIN CANCER; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN EXPOSURE; TREND STUDY; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AUSTRALIA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; MELANOMA; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; REVIEW; SEASON; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL;

AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEW ZEALAND; NORWAY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEASONS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84907211445     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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