Nicotine-derived N-Nitrosamines and Tobacco-related Cancer: Current Status and Future Directions

Cancer Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1986, Pages 935-944

  Hoffmann, Dietrich ^a   Hecht, S ^a  

^a AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; NITROSAMINE; TOBACCO;

CANCER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ETIOLOGY; HUMAN; MOUTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; SURVEY;

ANIMAL; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARCINOGENS; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; NITROSAMINES; PLANTS, TOXIC; SMOKING; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOBACCO;

EID: 0021998299     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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