284 Hair color and risk of keratinocyte carcinoma in US women and men

Light hair color is an established risk factor for melanoma. Whether hair color is associated with risk of keratinocyte carcinoma, also known as non-melanoma skin cancer, has not been thoroughly studied. We prospectively examined the association between natural hair color at adulthood and risk of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and basal cell carcinoma (BCC) based on a total 205,307 participants from the Nurses Health Study (NHS, n=78,879), NHS II (n=89,516), and Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS, n=36,912).
Source: Journal of Investigative Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Clinical Research: Epidemiology of Skin Diseases Source Type: research