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Re: Sun Exposure and Mortality From Melanoma
Affiliations of authors: Unit of Epidemiology, Prevention and Screening, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium (PA); Cancer Epidemiology Centre, The Cancer Council Victoria, Carlton, Australia (GS); International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyons, France (MB); Department of Public Health, Erasmus University MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (EdV); Comprehensive Cancer Centre South (IKZ), Eindhoven, The Netherlands (J-WC); Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unit 590, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France (JFD)
Correspondence to: Philippe Autier, MD, Unit of Epidemiology and Prevention, Jules Bordet Institute, 121 Bd of Waterloo, Brussels 1000 (e-mail: Philippe.autier@bordet.be).
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The study by Berwick et al. (1) suggests that high sun exposure is associated with increased survival of patients with cutaneous melanoma, independent of prognostic factors, such as Breslow thickness or anatomic location. The presence of solar elastosis in the skin specimen harboring the melanoma was
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