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Atopy May Protect Against Skin Cancer
Atopy May Protect Against Skin Cancer
B Jancin
20111003
2011 Nov 3
Elsevier Global Medical News
Atopy May Protect Against Skin Cancer
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2011 Nov 3, B Jancin
LISBON (EGMN) - In the latest installment in an ongoing debate, dermatologist Thomas Kornek reported that atopic dermatitis was found to provide protection against skin cancer in patients in a large German study.Standardized, onsite, dermatologist-conducted skin screenings of 90,880 employees in more than 300 German businesses demonstrated that the prevalence of nonmelanoma skin cancer among the 1.3% of workers with atopic dermatitis was less than half of that in coworkers without atopic dermatitis,...