Solar and ultraviolet radiation

IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans

1995 • 8,575 citations

Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction

1985 • 3,528 citations

Germline mutations of the PTEN gene in Cowden disease, an inherited breast and thyroid cancer syndrome

1997 • 2,063 citations

Negative Regulation of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Proliferation by the Pten Tumor Suppressor Gene in Vivo

2001 • 779 citations

Wavelengths effective in induction of malignant melanoma.

1993 • 739 citations

Non-targeted and Delayed Effects of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation: I. Radiation-Induced Genomic Instability and Bystander EffectsIn Vitro

2003 • 647 citations

Commission internationale de l’éclairage (CIE)

2001 • 615 citations

Safety with Lasers and Other Optical Sources

1980 • 612 citations

Wavelength dependence of oxidative DNA damage induced by UV and visible light

1997 • 601 citations

Solar ultraviolet radiation effects on biological systems

1991 • 584 citations

GUIDELINES ON LIMITS OF EXPOSURE TO ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION OF WAVELENGTHS BETWEEN 180 nm AND 400 nm (INCOHERENT OPTICAL RADIATION)

2004 • 556 citations

The basal layer in human squamous tumors harbors more UVA than UVB fingerprint mutations: A role for UVA in human skin carcinogenesis

2004 • 531 citations

DNA repair-deficient diseases, xeroderma pigmentosum, Cockayne syndrome and trichothiodystrophy

2003 • 490 citations

Environmental UV Photobiology

1993 • 430 citations

Melanocytic Nevi, Solar Keratoses, and Divergent Pathways to Cutaneous Melanoma

2003 • 424 citations

Bipyrimidine Photoproducts Rather than Oxidative Lesions Are the Main Type of DNA Damage Involved in the Genotoxic Effect of Solar UVA Radiation

2003 • 416 citations

Neonatal sunburn and melanoma in mice

2001 • 383 citations

Biologically Effective Ultraviolet Radiation: Surface Measurements in the United States, 1974 to 1985

1988 • 354 citations

A Prospective Study of Pigmentation, Sun Exposure, and Risk of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma in Women

2003 • 342 citations

Vitamin D and breast cancer risk: the NHANES I Epidemiologic follow-up study, 1971-1975 to 1992. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

1999 • 333 citations

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

2002 • 325 citations

Mutations of the human PTEN gene

2000 • 323 citations

Relationship of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma to Individual Sunlight-Exposure Habits<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN3">3</xref>

1986 • 308 citations

Activation of flavin-containing oxidases underlies light-induced production of H ₂ O ₂ in mammalian cells

1999 • 306 citations

Possible dosimeter for ultraviolet radiation

1976 • 281 citations

Ultraviolet B but not Ultraviolet A Radiation Initiates Melanoma

2004 • 279 citations

DNA Damage Induced in Cells by γ and UVA Radiation As Measured by HPLC/GC−MS and HPLC−EC and Comet Assay

2000 • 273 citations

Conditional loss of PTEN leads to precocious development and neoplasia in the mammary gland

2002 • 267 citations

Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Risk of Malignant Lymphomas

2005 • 261 citations

A role for ultraviolet A in solar mutagenesis.

1995 • 259 citations

Multiple Hamartoma Syndrome (Cowden Disease)

1974 • 257 citations

Differences in Age, Site Distribution, and Sex Between Nodular and Superficial Basal Cell Carcinomas Indicate Different Types of Tumors

1998 • 257 citations

Sunlight Exposure as Risk Factor for Intraocular Malignant Melanoma

1985 • 253 citations

Identification of the molecular target for the suppression of contact hypersensitivity by ultraviolet radiation.

1989 • 252 citations

Skin cancers in renal-transplant recipients occur more frequently than previously recognized in a temperate climate

2004 • 246 citations

Distribution of UV radiation at the Earth's surface from TOMS‐measured UV‐backscattered radiances

1999 • 245 citations

Conditional loss of PTEN leads to testicular teratoma and enhances embryonic germ cell production

2003 • 244 citations

Skin Cancer in a Subtropical Australian Population: Incidence and Lack of Association with Occupation

1996 • 241 citations

Sun Exposure, Vitamin D Receptor Gene Polymorphisms, and Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

2005 • 239 citations

Risk Factors for Basal Cell Carcinoma in a Mediterranean Population

2001 • 227 citations

Site-Specific DNA Damage at the GGG Sequence by UVA Involves Acceleration of Telomere Shortening

2001 • 227 citations

Cancer among Farmers: A Meta-Analysis

1998 • 223 citations

UVA-induced cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers form predominantly at thymine-thymine dipyrimidines and correlate with the mutation spectrum in rodent cells

2003 • 223 citations

Effects of clouds and stratospheric ozone depletion on ultraviolet radiation trends

1995 • 221 citations

ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT AND SKIN CANCER.

1928 • 218 citations

UVB phototherapy and skin cancer risk: a review of the literature

2005 • 216 citations

The Association Between Host Susceptibility Factors and Uveal Melanoma

2006 • 215 citations

Calcium, vitamin D, sunshine exposure, dairy products and colon cancer risk (United States).

2000 • 214 citations

Risk Factors for Melanoma by Body Site

2005 • 208 citations

Sunscreen Use and the Risk for Melanoma: A Quantitative Review

2003 • 205 citations

Ultraviolet Radiation Induced Signature Mutations in Photocarcinogenesis

1999 • 205 citations

Animal model for ultraviolet radiation-induced melanoma: platyfish-swordtail hybrid.

1989 • 205 citations

Body site distribution of cutaneous malignant melanoma in relationship to patterns of sun exposure

1998 • 195 citations

Use of Topical Sunscreens and the Risk of Malignant Melanoma: A Meta-Analysis of 9067 Patients From 11 Case–Control Studies

2002 • 194 citations

No Evidence for Increased Skin Cancer Risk in Psoriasis Patients Treated with Broadband or Narrowband UVB Phototherapy: A First Retrospective Study

2004 • 193 citations

Intermittent and Chronic Ultraviolet Light Exposure and Uveal Melanoma

2005 • 188 citations

Solar energy outside the Earth's atmosphere

1973 • 184 citations

Epidemiology of squamous cell conjunctival cancer.

1997 • 182 citations

Effect of ambient solar ultraviolet radiation on incidence of squamous-cell carcinoma of the eye

1996 • 178 citations

Epidemiology of pre‐invasive and invasive malignant melanoma in Western Australia

1980 • 167 citations

Sun exposure may protect against non‐Hodgkin lymphoma: A case‐control study

2004 • 159 citations

Early onset of neoplasia in the prostate and skin of mice with tissue-specific deletion of Pten

2004 • 159 citations

Risk Factors in the Development of Ocular Surface Epithelial Dysplasia

1994 • 159 citations

Transmittance of a cloud is wavelength‐dependent in the UV‐range

1996 • 157 citations

p53 expression and risk factors for cutaneous melanoma: A case-control study

1998 • 156 citations

Uveal melanoma in relation to ultraviolet light exposure and host factors.

1990 • 152 citations

High Levels of Ultraviolet B Exposure Increase the Risk of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer in Psoralen and Ultraviolet A-Treated Patients

2005 • 151 citations

Malignant melanoma in transgenic mice.

1991 • 151 citations

Sun exposure predicts risk of ocular melanoma in Australia

2002 • 149 citations

Occupational risk factors, ultraviolet radiation, and ocular melanoma: a case-control study in France.

2001 • 142 citations

Risk Factors for Ocular Melanoma: Western Canada Melanoma Study<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN1">2</xref><xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">3</xref>

1985 • 142 citations

Environmental effects of ozone depletion: 1998 assessment

1998 • 140 citations

The role of UV induced lesions in skin carcinogenesis: an overview of oncogene and tumor suppressor gene modifications in xeroderma pigmentosum skin tumors

2005 • 139 citations

Occupational Sunlight Exposure and Cancer Incidence among Swedish Construction Workers

2001 • 133 citations

Rising trends in melanoma an hypothesis concerning sunscreen effectiveness

1993 • 133 citations

Average midrange ultraviolet radiation flux and time outdoors predict melanoma risk.

2002 • 132 citations

Cumulus clouds and UV-B

1994 • 128 citations

Lifestyles, environmental and phenotypic factors associated with lip cancer: a case–control study in southern Spain

2003 • 126 citations

UV Doses of Americans¶

2001 • 124 citations

Sunlight and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: a population-based cohort study in Sweden

1999 • 122 citations

International Commission on Illumination

2002 • 118 citations

Cell Survival and Shuttle Vector Mutagenesis Induced by Ultraviolet A and Ultraviolet B Radiation in a Human Cell Line

1996 • 116 citations

Cowden's Disease

1988 • 116 citations

Arsenic-induced enhancement of ultraviolet radiation carcinogenesis in mouse skin: a dose-response study.

2004 • 113 citations

Residential and occupational exposure to sunlight and mortality from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: composite (threefold) case-control study

1997 • 111 citations

Can we predict solar ultraviolet radiation as the causal event in human tumours by analysing the mutation spectra of the p53 gene?

1994 • 107 citations

SOLAR UVR EXPOSURES OF THREE GROUPS OF OUTDOOR WORKERS ON THE SUNSHINE COAST, QUEENSLAND

1995 • 107 citations

UV-A induces persistent genomic instability in human keratinocytes through an oxidative stress mechanism

2002 • 107 citations

A theory of site distribution of melanomas: Queensland, Australia

1992 • 105 citations

Stratospheric ozone depletion and the risk of non-melanoma skin cancer in a British population

1992 • 104 citations

Malignant melanoma in Connecticut and Denmark

1980 • 101 citations

Epidemiologic evidence for the role of melanocytic nevi as risk markers and direct precursors of cutaneous malignant melanoma

1992 • 100 citations

Induction of melanoma in TPras transgenic mice

1999 • 100 citations

A BIOFILM USED AS ULTRAVIOLET‐DOSIMETER

1992 • 98 citations

Induction of delayed mutations and chromosomal instability in fibroblasts after UVA-, UVB-, and X-radiation.

2003 • 96 citations

Induction of Melanoma Phenotypes in Human Skin by Growth Factors and Ultraviolet B

2004 • 95 citations

UVB induces atypical melanocytic lesions and melanoma in human skin.

1998 • 93 citations

Eye color and cutaneous nevi predict risk of ocular melanoma in Australia

2001 • 92 citations

Arsenite cocarcinogenesis: an animal model derived from genetic toxicology studies.

2002 • 89 citations

Observed influence of clouds on ultraviolet‐B radiation

1996 • 87 citations

Factors Associated with Conjunctival Intraepithelial Neoplasia: A Case Control Study

1990 • 87 citations

Epidemiological studies of sunlight and cataract: the critical factor of ultraviolet exposure geometry

1994 • 86 citations

Residential sunlight exposure is associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer

2004 • 86 citations

Phototherapy and Photochemotherapy of Skin Diseases

1991 • 85 citations

Cutaneous melanoma histologically associated with a nevus and melanoma de novo have a different profile of risk: Results from a case-control study

1999 • 85 citations

Solar radiation, lip protection, and lip cancer risk in Los Angeles County women (California, United States)

1996 • 85 citations

The solar UV radiation environment: measurement techniques and results

1995 • 85 citations

Prostate cancer risk and exposure to ultraviolet radiation: further support for the protective effect of sunlight

2003 • 83 citations

Upwelling UV spectral irradiances and surface albedo measurements at Lauder, New Zealand

1996 • 83 citations

Risk factors for conjunctival squamous cell neoplasia: a matched case-control study

2003 • 83 citations

Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor and Ultraviolet B Transform Melanocytes in Human Skin

2001 • 82 citations

UV induced bystander signaling leading to apoptosis

2004 • 82 citations

UV-sensitive syndrome

2005 • 81 citations

Etiologic and Other Factors Predicting Nevus-Associated Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma

2005 • 80 citations

CELLULAR TYPES, SURVIVAL, RACE, NATIVITY, OCCUPATIONS, HABITS AND ASSOCIATED DISEASES IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF LIP CANCERS

1970 • 80 citations

An addition to the controversy on sunlight exposure and melanoma risk: A meta-analytical approach

1995 • 79 citations

Simultaneous spectroradiometry: A study of solar UV irradiance at two altitudes

1994 • 78 citations

Ultraviolet light exposure as a risk factor for ocular melanoma in Queensland, Australia

2000 • 78 citations

The Occupation of Fishing as a Risk Factor in Cancer of the Lip

1975 • 76 citations

Photocarcinogenesis in human adult skin grafts

2002 • 76 citations

Trends in the incidence of ocular melanoma in the United States, 1974-1998.

2003 • 74 citations

Patterns of tumor initiation in choroidal melanoma.

2000 • 74 citations

Bystander effects in UV-induced genomic instability: antioxidants inhibit delayed mutagenesis induced by ultraviolet A and B radiation.

2005 • 72 citations

Solar spectral measurements in the terrestrial environment

1982 • 71 citations

Malignant melanoma risk factors by anatomic site: A case-control study and polychotomous logistic regression analysis

1996 • 71 citations

Surface UV radiation over Australia, 1979–1992: Effects of ozone and cloud cover changes on variations of UV radiation

1999 • 68 citations

Overall and site‐specific risk of malignant melanoma associated with nevus counts at different body sites: A multicenter case‐control study of the german central malignant‐melanoma registry

1995 • 67 citations

Are Atypical Nevi a Risk Factor for Uveal Melanoma? A Case-Control Study

1994 • 64 citations

Empirical Studies of Tropospheric Transmission in the Ultraviolet: Broadband Measurements

1993 • 64 citations

NON-IONIZING RADIATION

1982 • 62 citations

Low incidence of p53 mutations in UVA (365-nm)-induced skin tumors in hairless mice.

1997 • 62 citations

Ultraviolet radiation-induced malignant skin melanoma in melanoma-susceptible transgenic mice.

1994 • 62 citations

Global Solar UV Index

2000 • 61 citations

Radiation Measurement in Photobiology

1989 • 61 citations

Reduction of solar UV by clouds: A comparison between satellite‐derived cloud effects and ground‐based radiation measurements

2000 • 58 citations

On the Mechanism of Cancer Induction by Ultraviolet Radiation

1950 • 57 citations

Functional genomics of UV radiation responses in human cells

2004 • 56 citations

In Vitro Sensitivity to Ultraviolet B Light and Skin Cancer Risk: A Case–Control Analysis

2005 • 56 citations

Metastatic cutaneous melanoma promoted by ultraviolet radiation in mice with transgene-initiated low melanoma susceptibility.

1998 • 55 citations

Moles and Site-Specific Risk of Nonfamilial Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma in Womene

1989 • 54 citations

New maximum UV irradiance levels observed in Central Europe

1997 • 54 citations

Protein Kinase C ε Is an Endogenous Photosensitizer That Enhances Ultraviolet Radiation-Induced Cutaneous Damage and Development of Squamous Cell Carcinomas1

2004 • 53 citations

An analysis of risk factors for cutaneous melanoma by anatomical site (Australia)

2005 • 49 citations

UV Radiation in New Zealand: North-to-South Differences Between Two Sites, and Relationship to Other Latitudes

1996 • 49 citations

Vitamin E and organoselenium prevent the cocarcinogenic activity of arsenite with solar UVR in mouse skin

2005 • 48 citations

Artificial ultraviolet radiation and ocular melanoma in Australia

2004 • 46 citations

Lack of Correlation between the Location of Choroidal Melanoma and Ultraviolet-Radiation Dose Distribution

1997 • 45 citations

A consideration of ambient solar ultraviolet radiation in the interpretation of studies of the aetiology of melanoma.

1993 • 45 citations

UV Index Experimental Values During the Years 2000 and 2001 from the Spanish Broadband UV-B Radiometric Network¶

2002 • 43 citations

Malignant melanoma in ultraviolet irradiated laboratory opossums: initiation in suckling young, metastasis in adults, and xenograft behavior in nude mice.

1994 • 43 citations

Sunlight is an important causative factor of recurrent herpes simplex.

2004 • 42 citations

Occupational risks for uveal melanoma results from a case-control study in nine European countries

2005 • 42 citations

APPLICATION OF A SIMPLE MODEL TO CALCULATE LATITUDINAL AND HEMISPHERIC DIFFERENCES IN ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION

1991 • 38 citations

Sunlight and Risk of Uveal Melanoma

1994 • 38 citations

Comparisons of Spore Dosimetry and Spectral Photometry of Solar-UV Radiation at Four Sites in Japan and Europe¶

2000 • 37 citations

Photocarcinogenesis and Susceptibility to UV Radiation in the v-Ha-ras Transgenic Tg.AC Mouse

1998 • 37 citations

A case‐control study on lip cancer risk factors in ragusa (sicily)

1984 • 35 citations

Dependence of photocarcinogenesis and photoimmunosuppression in the hairless mouse on dietary polyunsaturated fat

1996 • 35 citations

Low-dose ultraviolet exposure early in development can lead to widespread melanoma in the opossum model.

1998 • 33 citations

Artificial Suntanning

1986 • 31 citations

Mutation spectra in Salmonella of sunlight, white fluorescent light, and light from tanning salon beds: induction of tandem mutations and role of DNA repair

1995 • 30 citations

Ambient Solar UVR, Personal Exposure and Protection

1999 • 30 citations

Variability of Ground-Level Ultraviolet: Model and Measurement

2000 • 29 citations

Development of a New Mouse Model (Xeroderma Pigmentosum A-Deficient, Stem Cell Factor-Transgenic) of Ultraviolet B-Induced Melanoma

2005 • 28 citations

Protein Kinase C Epsilon Signals Ultraviolet Light-induced Cutaneous Damage and Development of Squamous Cell Carcinoma Possibly Through Induction of Specific Cytokines in a Paracrine Mechanism¶

2005 • 28 citations

Spatial association of melanocytic naevus and melanoma

1991 • 28 citations

L‐arginine increases UVA cytotoxicity in irradiated human keratinocyte cell line: potential role of nitric oxide

1999 • 26 citations

Cowden's disease. Association with squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue and perianal basal cell carcinoma

1984 • 25 citations

Solar UVR Measurements

1996 • 25 citations

Effect of Cloud on UVA and Exposure to Humans¶

2001 • 25 citations

Occupational Sunlight Exposure and Mortality From Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Among Electric Utility Workers

2001 • 24 citations

Types of Tumor Induced by Ultraviolet Radiation and Factors Influencing Their Relative Incidence

1943 • 24 citations

Activation of a Cryptic Splice Site of PTEN and Loss of Heterozygosity in Benign Skin Lesions in Cowden Disease

2001 • 23 citations

Five years of solar UV-radiation monitoring in Sweden

1996 • 22 citations

Cellular Origins of Ultraviolet Radiation-induced Corneal Tumours in the Grey, Short-tailed South American Opossum (Monodelphis domestica)

2000 • 21 citations

Ultraviolet radiation-induced corneal tumours in the South American Opossum, Monodelphis domestica

1993 • 21 citations

Standardized protocols for photocarcinogenesis safety testing

2003 • 20 citations

Genomic instability in radial growth phase melanoma cell lines after ultraviolet irradiation

2005 • 19 citations

Induction of Chromosome Aberrations and Delayed Genomic Instability by Photochemical Processes

1998 • 17 citations

Impaired Ultraviolet-B-Induced Cytokine Induction in Xeroderma Pigmentosum Fibroblasts

2001 • 16 citations

Modulation of Base Excision Repair Alters Cellular Sensitivity to UVA1 but not to UVB¶

2002 • 16 citations

CHRONIC ULTRAVIOLET EXPOSURE-INDUCED p53 GENE ALTERATIONS IN SENCAR MOUSE SKIN CARCINOGENESIS MODEL

1997 • 14 citations

Hazards of Optical Radiation, A Guide to Sources, Uses and Safety

1988 • 13 citations

Monitoring Ultraviolet Radiation

1993 • 13 citations

Photocarcinogenesis measuring the reproducibility of a biologic response to ultraviolet radiation exposure in mice

2003 • 11 citations

Non-ionising Radiation, Microwaves, Ultraviolet and Laser Radiation

1988 • 9 citations

The French Regulations for Ultraviolet Radiation Sunbeds

2000 • 8 citations

Preliminary Study on Exposure Measurement of Ultraviolet Radiation

2015 • 8 citations

EXPRESSION OF Hras-p21 AND KERATIN K13 IN UVR-INDUCED SKIN TUMORS IN SENCAR MICE

1998 • 5 citations

Techniques for Spectroradiometry and Broadband Radiometry

1989 • 3 citations