Increased burden of melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer in young women

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1385-1389

  Evans, Sarah S ^a   Jih, Ming H ^b   Goldberg, Leonard H ^b   Kimyai Asadi, Arash ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DERMSURGERY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TEXAS;

EID: 84916594011     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DSS.0000000000000188     Document Type: Article

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