Carcinogenesis Advance Access originally published online on January 23, 2009
Carcinogenesis 2009 30(4):720; doi:10.1093/carcin/bgp025
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The role of estrogens in melanoma and skin cancer
Department of Dermatology
1 Department of Internal Medicine
2 Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, University of Florence, Via della Pergola 60, Florence 50121, Italy
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Dear Sir,
It emerges from the interesting paper by Mancuso et al. on modulation of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma by endogenous estrogen that these hormones have a highly protective role against