Biomass fuels and lung cancer

Respirology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-31

  Lim, Wei Yen ^a   Seow, Adeline ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

air pollution; environmental and occupational health and epidemiology; lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE; ALKANE; ALKANOL; ALKENE; AMMONIA; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BENZENE; BIOFUEL; BIOMASS FUEL; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; COUMARIN; ESTER DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE A1; KETONE; NITRIC OXIDE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC COMPOUND; SUGAR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TERPENOID; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CARCINOGENICITY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKE;

AGE FACTORS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BIOMASS; CARBON COMPOUNDS, INORGANIC; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SMOKE; SMOKING; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84255197395     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.02088.x     Document Type: Review

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