The Association of Smoking and Socioeconomic status on Cutaneous Melanoma: a population based, data linkage, case-control study.
CONCLUSION: Our study has demonstrated that smoking appeared to be associated with reduced incidence of melanoma. Whilst smoking increases overall mortality, no association was observed with melanoma-specific mortality. Further work is required to determine if there is a biological mechanism underlying this relationship or an alternative explanation, such as survival bias.
PMID: 31529485 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Gibson JAG, Dobbs TD, Griffiths R, Song J, Akbari A, Whitaker S, Watkins A, Langan SM, Hutchings HA, Lyons RA, Whitaker IS Tags: Br J Dermatol Source Type: research
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