Risks of 2nd primary cancer were assessed in all patients with cutaneous melanoma (I 2,460) and all patients with ocular melanoma (2,O 18) incident in Denmark from I943 to I989 and followed for totals of 88,667 person-years and 16,045 personyears, respectively. After cutaneous melanoma, 972 2nd canc
Risk of second primary malignancies in patients with cutaneous melanoma
โ Scribed by M-H. Schmid-Wendtner; J. Baumert; C-M. Wendtner; G. Plewig; M. Volkenandt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 145
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-0963
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