Environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer mortality in the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study II

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-64

  Cardenas, Victor M ^a   Thun, Michael J ^b   Austin, Harland ^a   Lally, Cathy A ^b   Clark, W Scott ^a   Greenberg, Raymond S ^a,c   Heath Jr , Clark W ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental tobacco smoke; Lung cancer; Nonsmokers; United States

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOUSE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEER PROGRAM; SPOUSES; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031056309     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018483121625     Document Type: Article

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