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Institut Universitaire de Medecine Sociale et Preventive, Lausanne
Recent findings in melanoma described
February 5th, 2006
Melanoma research advances have been reported from Switzerland, the United States and Australia. Study 1: The risk of second cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) increased in subjects diagnosed with a prior CMM. "The incidence of most epithelial cancers rises with a power of age. However, second breast cancers have a high constant incidence independent of age. The skin is one of the few other sites allowing examination of age incidence curves of second neoplasms of the same organ," researchers in Switzerland reported. "We considered the risk of second primary CMM in a population-based series of 3,439 first CMM registered and...
Source: Women's Health Law Weekly (2006-02-05)
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