Association of breast and colorectal cancer in patients with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia: A retrospective, cross-sectional pilot study

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2021 Mar;84(3):859-860. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.10.044. Epub 2020 Oct 23.

Authors

Jessica B Brown-Korsah¹, Fritzlaine C Roche², Susan C Taylor³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.
² Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York.
³ Department of Dermatology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Electronic address: susan.taylor@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

PMID: 33470208
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.10.044

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Alopecia / complications*
Alopecia / pathology
Biopsy
Black or African American / statistics & numerical data
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis
Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Breast Neoplasms / etiology
Breast Neoplasms / pathology
Cicatrix / complications*
Cicatrix / pathology
Colonoscopy / statistics & numerical data
Colorectal Neoplasms / diagnosis
Colorectal Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Colorectal Neoplasms / etiology
Colorectal Neoplasms / pathology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Mammography / statistics & numerical data
Middle Aged
Pennsylvania / epidemiology
Pilot Projects
Prevalence
Protein-Arginine Deiminase Type 3 / metabolism
Retrospective Studies
Young Adult

Substances

PADI3 protein, human
Protein-Arginine Deiminase Type 3