An epidemiologic study of unreported cutaneous malignant melanoma among residents of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

Technical Report · Tue Nov 12 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5441581

West, D W; Whittemore, A S ^[1]; Zippin, C; Lum, D ^[2]; Holly, E ^[3]

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1. Northern California Cancer Center, Belmont, CA (United States) Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
2. California Univ., San Francisco, CA (United States)
3. Northern California Cancer Center, Belmont, CA (United States)

Because of a reported excess of cutaneous malignant melanoma cases at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the 1970's this study was funded to: determine if the number of cases in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties may have been underreported during 1973--1985 (this is the comparison group used to report an excess of melanoma at the LLNL), and determine if melanoma cases at the LLNL had different melanomas from the comparison population in terms of tumor thickness and therefore aggressiveness of tumors. The results of these two objectives are reported in the form of two papers, each dealing with one of the objectives.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States); California Univ., San Francisco, CA (United States); Northern California Cancer Center, Belmont, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 5441581
• Report Number(s): UCRL-CR-109261; ON: DE92011291
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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