Revisiting the association between environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer risk: V. Overall conclusions

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 59-82

  Lee, Peter N ^a   Fry, John S ^a   Forey, Barbara ^a  

^a PN Lee Statistics and Computing Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confounding; Dose response; ETS; Heterogeneity; Low dose extrapolation; Lung cancer; Meta analysis; Misclassification; Publication bias; Recall bias

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; RISK FACTOR;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0036066126     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000064243     Document Type: Article

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