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Association may be iatrogenic
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BMJ
1995;311:750.1
- Cancer: dermatological
- Chemotherapy
- Dermatology
- Immunology (including allergy)
- Infectious diseases
- Oncology
- Sexual health
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- Mark Vickers, Senior registrar
- Haematology Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU
EDITOR,--Johanna Adami and colleagues postulate that exposure to ultraviolet light causes immunosuppression and, thereby, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.1 To support their hypothesis they report that patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma had a relative risk of 5.5 of developing squamous cell skin cancer. Conversely, patients with squamous cell skin cancer had a twofold excess risk of developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or the closely related chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. The relation …
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