Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on January 27, 2009
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2009 101(3):210; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn465
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press.
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Re: Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer and Risk for Subsequent Malignancy
Affiliation of author: Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center, San Francisco, CA
Correspondence to: William B. Grant, PhD, Sunlight, Nutrition, and Health Research Center (SUNARC), P.O. Box 641603, San Francisco, CA 94164-1603 (e-mail: wbgrant@infionline.net).
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The recent article by Chen et al. (1) on risk for subsequent cancer after nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) is interesting. However, the authors overlooked a number of similar studies (2–5) that found diagnosis of NMSC was associated with reduced risk of cancer. The NMSC mortality rate was used as the index of integrated lifetime exposure to ultraviolet B radiation
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