Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and skin cancer

Abstract

Ultraviolet light is unlikely explanation for association EDITOR,--Johanna Adami and colleagues provide data showing a greatly increased risk of melanoma and squamous cell skin cancer after non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.1 They also show a smaller but significantly increased risk for the reverse (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia after skin cancer). They conclude that “this supports the hypothesis of a role for ultraviolet light in the increasing incidence …