Birth month and risk of skin tumors—Follow up of six million Caucasians born from 1950 to 2014 in Sweden

Abstract Background Some studies hypothesize that birth month—as a proxy of exposure to ultraviolet radiation in early infancy—is associated with increased risk of skin tumors. Methods We studied a national cohort of all 5 874 607 individuals born in Sweden to parents of Swedish or Nordic origin as...

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Main Authors: Rickard Ljung, Mats Talbäck, Amal R. Khanolkar, Maria Feychting
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-08-01
Series:Cancer Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.3286