'Smoke like a man, die like a man'?: A review of the relationship between gender, sex and lung cancer

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1067-1080

  Payne, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biology; Gender; Lung cancer; Sex differences; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CANCER; GENDER ROLE; HEALTH RISK;

CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0034910487     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00402-0     Document Type: Article

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