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Keratinocyte Carcinoma and Risk for Another Type of Cancer: Assessment of a Dose-response Relationship

Ashley Wilson1, James Small2, Catherine Flanagan1

  • 1Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, U.S.A.

Anticancer Research
|September 15, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
Keratinocyte carcinomacancer riskcase-control studyepidemiologynonmelanoma skin cancersecond primary cancers

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