Light-induced skin cancer and prolonged UV-erythema

✍ Scribed by E. G. Jung; M. Furtwängler; G. Klostermann; Elisabeth Bohnert

• Book ID: 104766457
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 210 KB
• Volume: 267
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0340-3696
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00416919

✦ Synopsis

The individual minimal erythema dose (MED) and the persistence of a marked erythema (8 MED) was monitored over 3 weeks (300 nm _+ 10 nm) in 4 groups: White students with fair complexion compared with students of homogenous pigmentation as well as skin carcinoma patients compared with a control group of the same age, i.e., older than 50 years.

The MED of the 4 groups gives no significant differences, while the skin carcinoma group shows in 80 % a prolonged erythema persistence (control group only 28 %). This phenomenon does not seem to correlate with the skin type and may be useful in identifying high-risk patients prone to light-induced skin cancer.