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Susceptibility to Skin Cancer *
Author(s) -
Mackie Bruce S.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-0960.1971.tb00749.x
Subject(s) - medicine , variation (astronomy) , skin cancer , dermatology , ultraviolet radiation , resistance (ecology) , cancer , biology , ecology , physics , astrophysics , chemistry , radiochemistry
SUMMARY Blum's experiments with albino mice demonstrate a wide variation in the resistance of individual subjects to the carcinogenic effect of ultraviolet light. From clinical experience humans are thought to show the same wide variation in resistance and this paper is a discussion of some of the possible reasons for this variation.