Prevalence and causes of air pollution and lung cancer in Xuanwei City and Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province, China

Frontiers of Medicine in China

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 217-220

  Cao, Yi ^a   Gao, Huaping ^b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; COAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84863480360     PISSN: 16737342     EISSN: 16737458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11684-012-0192-8     Document Type: Letter

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