Teen smoking, field cancerization, and a "critical period" hypothesis for lung cancer susceptibility

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 555-558

  Wiencke, John K ^a   Kelsey, Karl T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Field cancerization; Lung cancer; Susceptibility; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHILD; CHROMOSOME; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CYTOGENETICS; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0036072305     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.02110555     Document Type: Article

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