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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on March 10, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(7):918; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp046
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

RE: "ARE PATIENTS WITH SKIN CANCER AT LOWER RISK OF DEVELOPING COLORECTAL OR BREAST CANCER?"

Morten Frisch

Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

(e-mail: mfr@ssi.dk)

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Having previously published on the risk of internal malignancies following skin cancer, I read with interest the recent paper by Soerjomataram et al. (1). The authors used a standard second-cancer approach in the Netherlands to examine colorectal and breast cancer risks for 26,916 patients with skin cancer.

The authors’ a priori expectation was to observe reduced risks of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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