In this research letter we provide e reply to the paper by Fiessler et al Association between month of birth and melanoma risk: fact or fiction? Int J Epidemiol. 2017) and show with old and new analyses that seasonality of birth for skin melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers do exist and is not a consequence of bias or flawed study design. Neonatal exposure to UV may be responsible of the increased risk of adult skin cancer observed among persons borh in spring.
Seasonality of birth for skin melanoma deserves further investigation
Stracci, F;Liso, A;Duca, E;La Rosa, F;Bianconi, F.
2017
Abstract
In this research letter we provide e reply to the paper by Fiessler et al Association between month of birth and melanoma risk: fact or fiction? Int J Epidemiol. 2017) and show with old and new analyses that seasonality of birth for skin melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers do exist and is not a consequence of bias or flawed study design. Neonatal exposure to UV may be responsible of the increased risk of adult skin cancer observed among persons borh in spring.File in questo prodotto:
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