Height, nevus count, and risk of cutaneous malignant melanoma: Results from 2 large cohorts of US women

Taller individuals are at higher risk of melanoma.To prospectively investigate the association of height with nevus count and melanoma and estimate the proportion of height-melanoma association explained by nevus count among white participants from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2).We used Cox proportional hazards regression and multinomial logistic regression for data analyses, with adjustment of potential...