Members of the Working Group: Adele Green (Chair), Queensland Institute of Medical Research, PO Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Qld, Australia; Philippe Autier, Unit of Epidemiology, Prevention and Screening, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium (current address is: International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France); Mathieu Boniol and Peter Boyle, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Jean-Francois Doré, INSERM U590, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France; Sara Gandini, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy; Julia Newton-Bishop, Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Division, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK; Béatrice Secretan,* International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Stephen J Walter, Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada; Martin A. Weinstock, Dermatoepidemiology Unit, VA Medical Center, Providence, and Departments of Dermatology and Community Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; and Johan Westerdahl, Department of Surgery, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
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The association of use of sunbeds with cutaneous malignant melanoma and other skin cancers: A systematic review
Article first published online: 27 NOV 2006
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.22453
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The International Agency for Research on Cancer Working Group on artificial ultraviolet (UV) light and skin cancer (2007), The association of use of sunbeds with cutaneous malignant melanoma and other skin cancers: A systematic review. Int. J. Cancer, 120: 1116–1122. doi: 10.1002/ijc.22453
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- Issue published online: 19 JAN 2007
- Article first published online: 27 NOV 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 27 SEP 2006
- Manuscript Received: 8 JUN 2006
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