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1991 • 1,946 citations

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1992 • 1,439 citations

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1988 • 1,130 citations

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1987 • 1,070 citations

Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention.

1983 • 931 citations

The Pathogenesis of Melanoma Induced by Ultraviolet Radiation

1999 • 861 citations

Cancer statistics, 1990

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Prevalence of Skin Cancer in an Endemic Area of Chronic Arsenicism in Taiwan<xref ref-type="fn" rid="FN2">2</xref>

1968 • 804 citations

Xeroderma Pigmentosum

1987 • 774 citations

MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION OF SOLAR KERATOSES TO SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA

1988 • 634 citations

Childhood sun exposure as a risk factor for melanoma: a systematic review of epidemiologic studies.

2001 • 621 citations

Nonmelanoma Cancers of the Skin

1992 • 541 citations

Assignment of a Locus for Familial Melanoma, MLM, to Chromosome 9p13-p22

1992 • 531 citations

THE RISK OF SKIN CANCER IN RENAL TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

1996 • 489 citations

The Emerging Epidemic of Melanoma and Squamous Cell Skin Cancer

1989 • 468 citations

Recent Trends in Cutaneous Melanoma Incidence Among Whites in the United States

2001 • 462 citations

High Risk of Malignant Melanoma in Melanoma-Prone Families with Dysplastic Nevi

1985 • 458 citations

Cutaneous Squamous-Cell Carcinoma in Patients Treated with PUVA

1984 • 456 citations

Photoprotection by melanin—a comparison of black and Caucasian skin

1979 • 446 citations

Human papillomavirus type‐16‐related DNA in genital Bowen's disease and in bowenoid papulosis

1983 • 438 citations

Cutaneous Melanoma

1991 • 397 citations

Incidence of cancer in rheumatoid arthritis and other disorders after immunosuppressive treatment

1985 • 386 citations

Melanomas of the Eye and Other Noncutan eous Sites: Epidemiologic Aspects

1976 • 385 citations

Familial atypical multiple mole-melanoma syndrome.

1978 • 361 citations

Incidence of non-melanocytic skin cancer treated in Australia

1988 • 360 citations

Risk reduction for nonmelanoma skin cancer with childhood sunscreen use

1986 • 356 citations

Acquired Precursors of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma

1985 • 345 citations

Epidemiology of melanoma

2000 • 343 citations

Giant Pigmented Nevi, Melanoma, and Leptomeningeal Melanocytosis

1965 • 338 citations

Spontaneous remission of solar keratoses: the case for conservative management

1986 • 325 citations

Risk Factors for Cutaneous Melanoma

1987 • 314 citations

Estimates of ozone depletion and skin cancer incidence to examine the Vienna Convention achievements

1996 • 301 citations

Genital Tumors among Men with Psoriasis Exposed to Psoralens and Ultraviolet A Radiation (PUVA) and Ultraviolet B Radiation

1990 • 300 citations

Nonepidermal Origin of Malignant Melanoma Associated with a Giant Congenital Nevocellular Nevus

1981 • 275 citations

Increasing Incidence of Cutaneous Melanoma in Queensland, Australia

1992 • 271 citations

Risk Reduction for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer With Childhood Sunscreen Use

1986 • 264 citations

Incidence rates of skin cancer in Townsville, Australia

1998 • 261 citations

PUVA and cancer: a large-scale epidemiological study

1991 • 255 citations

Malignant Potential of Actinic Keratoses and the Controversy Over Treatment

1991 • 253 citations

Changing trends in non‐melanoma skin cancer in South Wales, 1988–98

2000 • 246 citations

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

1996 • 241 citations

Radiation-induced skin cancer of the head and neck

1970 • 237 citations

Skin cancer in Caucasian renal allograft recipients living in a subtropical climate.

1980 • 229 citations

Malignant melanoma in the 1990s: the continued importance of early detection and the role of physician examination and self-examination of the skin

1991 • 227 citations

Cutaneous Malignant Neoplasms in Patients With Renal Transplants

1986 • 226 citations

Common acquired naevi and the risk of malignant melanoma

1985 • 222 citations

MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF AGE AND ULTRAVIOLET EFFECTS ON THE INCIDENCE OF SKIN CANCER AMONG WHITES IN THE UNITED STATES

1977 • 219 citations

MALIGNANT MELANOMA IN RENAL-TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

1981 • 218 citations

Cutaneous factors related to the risk of malignant melanoma

1983 • 215 citations

DYSPLASTIC NAEVI AND CUTANEOUS MELANOMA RISK

1983 • 215 citations

Basal Cell Skin Carcinoma and Other Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers in Finland From 1956 Through 1995

1999 • 215 citations

Trends in the Population-Based Incidence of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin First Diagnosed Between 1984 and 1992

1997 • 209 citations

Trends in the Presentation and Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinomas

1986 • 207 citations

THE ASSOCIATION OF CUTANEOUS MALIGNANT MELANOMA WITH THE USE OF SUNBEDS AND SUNLAMPS

1990 • 206 citations

The Incidence of Multiple Primary Cancers. I. Development of Further Cancers in Patients With Lymphomas, Leukemias, and Myeloma

1967 • 196 citations

Prognostic Index in Malignant Melanoma

1978 • 192 citations

Basal cell carcinoma

1990 • 185 citations

Preventive Care Guidelines: 1991

1991 • 185 citations

Metastatic Malignant Melanoma in Prepubertal Children

1975 • 184 citations

AN ACTION SPECTRUM FOR UV PHOTOCARCINOGENESIS *

1986 • 180 citations

Risk Factors for the Development of Malignant Melanoma—I: Review of Case‐Control Studies

1988 • 178 citations

Cancers after cyclosporine therapy.

1988 • 172 citations

Mortality from Melanoma in Migrants to Australia: Variation by Age at Arrival and Duration of Stay

1992 • 171 citations

The Relationship of Basal Cell Carcinomas and Squamous Cell Carcinomas to Solar Keratoses

1988 • 167 citations

Human Papillomavirus Type 16 DNA in Periungual Squamous Cell Carcinomas

1989 • 165 citations

Skin Cancer in Blacks in the United States

1988 • 161 citations

Risk of developing another basal cell carcinoma. A 5-year prospective study

1987 • 160 citations

Cancer in Five Continents

1972 • 159 citations

The role of childhood exposure to sunlight in the development of solar keratoses and non‐melanocytic skin cancer

1990 • 159 citations

Cutaneous malignant melanoma, Scotland, 1979-89

1992 • 157 citations

SEER Program: cancer incidence and mortality in the United States 1973-81.

1984 • 155 citations

Cancer of the skin in blacks. I. A review of 163 black patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

1981 • 150 citations

The emerging epidemic of skin cancer

1994 • 150 citations

The incidence of non‐melanocytic skin cancers in an Australian population: results of a five‐year prospective study

1989 • 147 citations

Low density lipoprotein receptor and cation-independent mannose 6-phosphate receptor are transported from the cell surface to the Golgi apparatus at equal rates in PC12 cells

1992 • 147 citations

COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF 3531 BASAL‐CELL CARCINOMAS OF THE SKIN

1979 • 146 citations

Association of cutaneous malignant melanoma with intermittent exposure to ultraviolet radiation: results of a case-control study in Ontario, Canada

1999 • 144 citations

MARJOLINS ULCER

1976 • 141 citations

Timing of excessive ultraviolet radiation and melanoma: epidemiology does not support the existence of a critical period of high susceptibility to solar ultraviolet radiation- induced melanoma

2001 • 135 citations

The Anatomical Distribution of Skin Cancers

1986 • 132 citations

Dysplastic nevi as risk markers of sporadic (nonfamilial) melanoma. A case-control study

1991 • 131 citations

Estimating Increases in Skin Cancer Morbidity Due to Increases in Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure

1983 • 130 citations

The rate of malignant melanoma in the United States: Are we making an impact?

1987 • 128 citations

Malignant Melanoma in Black American and White American Populations

1982 • 126 citations

The Rising Incidence and Mortality Rate of Malignant Melanoma

1982 • 120 citations

Melanoma and sun exposure: Contrasts between intermittent and chronic exposure

1992 • 119 citations

Trends in the incidence of non-melanoma skin cancer in the SE Netherlands 1975–1988: a registry-based study

1991 • 117 citations

Common and dysplastic naevi as risk factors for cutaneous malignant melanoma in a Swedish population.

1991 • 114 citations

Risk of another basal cell carcinoma developing after treatment of a basal cell carcinoma

1993 • 113 citations

Dysplastic Nevi as Risk Markers of Sporadic (Nonfamilial) Melanoma

1991 • 113 citations

Malignant melanoma. A controlled study of possibly associated factors

1969 • 111 citations

Malignant melanoma in Uganda. (The relationship between pigmentation and malignant melanoma on the soles of the feet).

1967 • 109 citations

Occupation and malignant melanoma: a study based on cancer registration data in England and Wales and in Sweden.

1990 • 106 citations

ULTRAVIOLET‐RADIATION and SKIN CANCER. EFFECT OF AN OZONE LAYER DEPLETION

1990 • 105 citations

Ultraviolet Radiation as a Cause of Skin Tumors

1973 • 104 citations

OZONE DEPLETION AND INCREASE IN ANNUAL CARCINOGENIC ULTRAVIOLET DOSE

1990 • 103 citations

Non‐melanoma skin cancer: Ten years of cancer‐registry‐based surveillance

1993 • 102 citations

Aggressive Biologic Behavior of Basal‐ and Squamous‐Cell Cancers in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia or Chronic Lymphocytic Lymphoma

1979 • 98 citations

Therapy for cutaneous melanoma: An update

1990 • 97 citations

Nonmelanoma skin cancer mortality. A population-based study.

1991 • 96 citations

Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1969 Through 1988

1993 • 92 citations

Cancer of the skin in blacks: A review of 128 patients with basal-cell carcinoma

1981 • 92 citations

EFFECTS OF ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM IN HUMANS

1989 • 85 citations

The risk of developing subsequent nonmelanoma skin cancers

1990 • 82 citations

Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Mortality

1991 • 80 citations

The Epidemiology of Skin Cancer in Queensland: The Influence of Phenotype and Environment

1970 • 79 citations

New primary nonmelanoma skin cancer in patients with a history of squamous cell carcinoma of the skin

1992 • 78 citations

Human Papillomavirus Type 16 in Bowenoid Papulosis, Intraoral Papillomas, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Tongue

1987 • 77 citations

Excision Repair of Pyrimidine Dimers Induced by Simulated Solar Radiation in the Skin of Patients with Basal Cell Carcinoma

1990 • 77 citations

Cutaneous Complications in Renal Transplant Recipients

1987 • 74 citations

Malignant Melanoma

1969 • 73 citations

Melanoma risk by age and socio‐economic status

1990 • 73 citations

Superficial cancer in Nigeria.

1969 • 70 citations

Association of surface ultraviolet B radiation levels with melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer in United States blacks.

2000 • 70 citations

Migration and death from malignant melanoma

1985 • 68 citations

The Subsequent Risk of Internal Cancer With Bowen's Disease

1991 • 66 citations

INCIDENCE AND REPORTING OF CUTANEOUS MELANOMA IN QUEENSLAND

1982 • 63 citations

Socioeconomic status, sunlight exposure, and risk of malignant melanoma: the Western Canada Melanoma Study.

1987 • 62 citations

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1992 • 61 citations

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1989 • 61 citations

Is chronic sunlight exposure important in accounting for increases in melanoma incidence?

1989 • 59 citations

Epidermoid Carcinoma in Chronic Osteomyelitis

1965 • 58 citations

A GENETIC ANALYSIS OF MELANOMA-POLYGENIC INHERITANCE AS A THRESHOLD TRAIT

1981 • 56 citations

Cutting Oils and Cancer

1971 • 56 citations

Incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer in New Hampshire and Vermont

1991 • 54 citations

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

1989 • 54 citations

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1992 • 53 citations

Metastasis From Squamous Cell Skin Cancer of the Extremities

1982 • 53 citations

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1991 • 52 citations

Skin Cancer in the South African Bantu

1953 • 52 citations

Influence of environmental factors excluding ultra violet radiation on the incidence of skin cancer.

1978 • 49 citations

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1971 • 49 citations

Basal cell epithelioma in black patients

1987 • 45 citations

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1991 • 45 citations

Incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer in the United States

1984 • 42 citations

Impact of Ozone Depletion on Skin Cancers

1988 • 42 citations

High prevalence of skin cancer in World War II servicemen stationed in the Pacific theater

1993 • 42 citations

Effect of BANS location on the prognosis of clinical stage I melanoma: new data and meta-analysis

1988 • 38 citations

Influence of anatomic location on prognosis of malignant melanoma: Attempt to verify the BANS model

1986 • 38 citations

Level of education and the risk of malignant melanoma

1992 • 38 citations

Skin Cancer in Immunosuppressed Patients

1977 • 38 citations

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1975 • 38 citations

Invasive Cutaneous Melanoma in Elderly Patients

1991 • 36 citations

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1988 • 35 citations

Surgical Dermatology: Advances in Current Practice

1993 • 35 citations

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1979 • 34 citations

Cancers-associated with HIV infection.

1987 • 34 citations

Malignant Melanoma in Black Americans

1991 • 33 citations

Squamous cell carcinomas of the skin of the pinna

1976 • 31 citations

Burn wound carcinoma: case report and review of the literature

1988 • 29 citations

Could Melanoma Be Caused by Fluorescent Light? A Review of Relevant Epidemiology

1986 • 25 citations

Malignant melanoma in a man seropositive for the human immunodeficiency virus

1989 • 24 citations

Malignant tumors other than lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma in association with HIV infection.

1988 • 24 citations

Malignant degeneration of skin lesions in epidermodysplasia verruciformis.

1969 • 23 citations

Nonmelanoma skin cancer in Japanese residents of Kauai, Hawaii

1987 • 22 citations

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1986 • 22 citations

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1944 • 19 citations

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1965 • 18 citations

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1984 • 11 citations

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1982 • 10 citations

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1987 • 10 citations

The gender-related issues in malignant melanoma.

1993 • 7 citations

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1972 • 7 citations

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome and compulsive drinking of water

1989 • 5 citations

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1979 • 4 citations

Genetic Epidemiology and the Familial Atypical Multiple Mole Melanoma Syndrome

1991 • 3 citations