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: Tags: Br J Dermatol Source Type: research