303 Health maintenance practices associated with incident skin cancer in US women and men

Detection bias is an important source of potential bias in epidemiologic studies in which more intensive surveillance is associated with a greater apparent risk of disease. To assess the potential for detection bias related to skin cancers, we examined the association between various health maintenance practices and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), basal cell carcinoma (BCC), and melanoma in Nurses Health Study (NHS) and Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS), large US cohorts of women and men, respectively.
Source: Journal of Investigative Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Clinical Research: Epidemiology of Skin Diseases Source Type: research