Sunglasses to hide behind may also prevent melanoma of the eyes

In 1967, Sandy Posey pronounced that sunglasses are essential beachwear (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HVBEb-GA1Y). Now, whole-genome sequencing reveals that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can contribute to melanomas in the iris and conjunctiva, data that provide a molecular explanation for why it i...

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Autores principales: Dhomen, Nathalie, Mundra, Piyushkumar A., Marais, Richard
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8368086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-021-01343-8
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spelling pubmed-83680862021-08-31 Sunglasses to hide behind may also prevent melanoma of the eyes Dhomen, Nathalie Mundra, Piyushkumar A. Marais, Richard Br J Cancer Comment In 1967, Sandy Posey pronounced that sunglasses are essential beachwear (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HVBEb-GA1Y). Now, whole-genome sequencing reveals that ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can contribute to melanomas in the iris and conjunctiva, data that provide a molecular explanation for why it is important to protect our eyes from exposure to UVR. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-04-06 2021-08-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8368086/ /pubmed/33824477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41416-021-01343-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access 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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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