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Season of birth and other perinatal risk factors for melanoma

Author(s) -

Casey Crump,

Kristina Sundquist,

Weiva Sieh,

Marilyn A. Winkleby,

Jan Sundquist

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyt277

Subject(s) - season of birth , medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , demography , cohort , sibling , risk factor , cohort study , pediatrics , relative risk , optics , psychology , developmental psychology , physics , psychiatry , sociology

Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure is the main risk factor for cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), but its specific effect in infancy is unknown. We examined whether season of birth, a proxy for solar UVR exposure in the first few months of life, is associated with CMM in childhood through young adulthood.

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