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SUBMITTER: Gossai A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4924382 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gossai Anala A Waterboer Tim T Hoen Anne G AG Farzan Shohreh F SF Nelson Heather H HH Michel Angelika A Willhauck-Fleckenstein Martina M Christensen Brock C BC Perry Ann E AE Pawlita Michael M Karagas Margaret R MR
Cancer medicine 20160221 6
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin is a malignancy arising from epithelial keratinocytes. Experimental and epidemiologic evidence raise the possibility that human polyomaviruses (PyV) may be associated with the occurrence of SCC. To investigate whether the risk for SCC was associated with PyV infection, seropositivity to 10 PyV types was assessed following diagnosis in a population-based case-control study conducted in the United States. A total of 253 SCC cases and 460 age group and gend ...[more]