Sunlight and mortality from breast, ovarian, colon, prostate, and non-melanoma skin cancer: a composite death certificate based case-control study

D. Michal Freedman, Mustafa Dosemeci, Katherine A. McGlynn

Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 2002 · 329 citations · 40 references

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Abstract

In this exploratory study, unlike mortality from non-melanoma skin cancer, mortality from female breast cancer and colon cancer were negatively associated with both residential and occupational sunlight.

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