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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(15):1159-1160; doi:10.1093/jnci/dji213
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© 2005 Oxford University Press

CORRESPONDENCE

RESPONSE: Re: Sun Exposure and Mortality From Melanoma

Marianne Berwick, Bruce K. Armstrong, Leah Ben-Porat, Anne Kricker, Judie Fine, Carey Eberle, Raymond L. Barnhill

Affiliations of authors: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (MB); University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (BKA, AK); Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (LB-P); University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT (JF); Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY (CE); University of Miami, Miami, FL (RLB)

Correspondence to: Marianne Berwick, PhD, MPH, University of New Mexico, Department of Internal Medicine, New Mexico Cancer Research Facility, MSC08 4630, Rm. 103A, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131 (e-mail: mberwick@salud.unm.edu).

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We welcome the three letters responding to our article "Sun Exposure and Mortality From Melanoma" (1). Kalish suggests that "...melanomas induced by intense sun exposure have a more benign behavior than those not induced by intense sun exposure." We agree that this is a possibility; and one of us suggested it, somewhat cautiously, over 20 years ago "...melanoma might be biologically more benign if it occurs in association with . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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