Risk factors for intraocular melanoma and occupational exposure
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Risk factors for intraocular melanoma and occupational exposure.
Ocular melanoma is an uncommon cancer. Age standardised incidence ranges from 0.4 to 1.2 cases per 100 000 within Europe and from 0.1 to 2.3 worldwide (figures from WHO and International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)). Only one report suggests any change over decades. However, incidence data from the USA show a decrease over the period 1973–89. The behaviour of intraocular melanoma varie...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.83.10.1190