Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?

The incidence of unilateral, but not bilateral, retinoblastoma in human populations at different geographical locations increases significantly with ambient erythemal dose of ultraviolet B radiation from sunlight. This supports the hypothesis that sunlight plays a role in retinoblastoma formation. ©...

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Autor principal: Hooper, M L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1999
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Regular Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10098771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6690204
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spelling pubmed-23622202009-09-10 Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma? Hooper, M L Br J Cancer Regular Article The incidence of unilateral, but not bilateral, retinoblastoma in human populations at different geographical locations increases significantly with ambient erythemal dose of ultraviolet B radiation from sunlight. This supports the hypothesis that sunlight plays a role in retinoblastoma formation. © 1999 Cancer Research Campaign Nature Publishing Group 1999-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2362220/ /pubmed/10098771 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6690204 Text en Copyright © 1999 Cancer Research Campaign https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material.If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
title Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
title_full Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
title_fullStr Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
title_full_unstemmed Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
title_short Is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
title_sort is sunlight an aetiological agent in the genesis of retinoblastoma?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10098771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6690204
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