Cigarette smoking and prostate cancer: No relation with six measures of lifetime smoking habits in a large case-control study among U.S. whites

Prostate

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-200

  Lumey, L H ^a   Pittman, B ^a   Zang, E A ^a   Wynder, E L ^a  

^a AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Cigarette smoking; Dose response; Prostate cancer; Tar yield

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SMOKING HABIT; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RELIGION; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030665215     PISSN: 02704137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0045(19971101)33:3<195::AID-PROS8>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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