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Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
1Department of Pathology, Molecular Medicine Centre, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, UK.
British Journal of Cancer
|March 31, 1999
Abstract:
The incidence of unilateral, but not bilateral, retinoblastoma in human populations at different geographical locations increases significantly with ambient erythemal dose of ultraviolet B radiation from sunlight. This supports the hypothesis that sunlight plays a role in retinoblastoma formation.