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Maria Sofia Cattaruzza, MD, MSc

Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:389-390.

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Sunlamp use and the risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma: a population-based case-control study in Connecticut, USA
Chen YT, Dubrow R, Zheng T, Barnhill RL, Fine J, Berwick M
Int J Epidemiol. 1998;27:758-765

The objective of this study was to evaluate whether recreational exposure to artificial UV radiation could increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma. Recreational sun exposure is widespread in the industrialized world because suntans are associated with leisure, holidays, and good health. Thus, the use of suntan salons and domestic tanning lamps has increased enormously in the last decades. Unfortunately, among the nonconstitutional risk factors, UV radiation is also considered the most important risk factor for cutaneous melanoma.

In this case-control study, 624 patients who were diagnosed between January 15, 1987, and May, 15, 1989, with a first primary melanoma were frequency-matched by sex and age with 512 control patients selected from the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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