The forthcoming inexorable decline of cutaneous melanoma mortality in light-skinned populations

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 869-878

  Autier, Philippe ^a   Koechlin, Alice ^a   Boniol, Mathieu ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Age period cohort; Melanoma; Mortality; Time trends; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CENTRAL EUROPEAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DATA BASE; DISEASE COURSE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; IRELAND; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; MELANOMA; MORTALITY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIA; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84927522766     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2015.01.056     Document Type: Article

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