Smoking and lung cancer: Recent evidence and a discussion of some questions

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1175-1191

  Cornfield, Jerome ^a   Haenszel, William ^b   Hammond, E Cuyler ^c   Lilienfeld, Abraham M ^a   Shimkin, Michael B ^b   Wynder, Ernst L ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

AGING; AUTOPSY; BRONCHUS CANCER; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN CANCER; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 70349855228     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp289     Document Type: Review

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