Risk of lung cancer from environmental exposures to tobacco smoke

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 333-345

  Dockery, Douglas W ^a   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR CANCER PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental tobacco smoke; Lung cancer; Smoking

Indexed keywords

2 NAPHTHYLAMINE; 4 BIPHENYLAMINE; ALKADIENE; AMMONIA; ANILINE; BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; BENZENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; CARCINOGEN; COTININE; FORMALDEHYDE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDRAZINE; NICOTINE; NITROSAMINE; OXYGEN; TAR; THIOCYANATE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; META ANALYSIS; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPOUSE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARCINOGENS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PLANTS, TOXIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKE; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 0030807679     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018401120233     Document Type: Review

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