Publications by authors named "Nicholas F Leader"
Background: Financial relationships between editorial board members of peer-reviewed journals and pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing companies can potentially lead to biases and loss of objectivity of the medical literature. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential financial conflicts of interest that exist among editorial board members of dermatology journals.
Methods: Editorial board members for 36 dermatology journals were identified and searched using the Open Payments database on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services website.
The original article was published on August 15, 2018 and corrected on September 15, 2018. The revised version of the article removes a co-author, unintentionally retained during the editorial proofing process. This change appears in the revised online PDF copy of this article.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Keratinocyte carcinoma (ie, cutaneous basal and squamous cell carcinoma) is the most common cancer in the United States.
Objective: To determine whether topical fluorouracil could prevent surgically treated keratinocyte carcinoma.
Design, Setting, And Participants: The Veterans Affairs Keratinocyte Carcinoma Chemoprevention Trial was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of topical fluorouracil for chemoprevention of keratinocyte carcinoma.