Are women who smoke at higher risk for lung cancer than men who smoke?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 177, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 601-612

  De Matteis, Sara ^b   Consonni, Dario ^b   Pesatori, Angela C ^b   Bergen, Andrew W ^b   Bertazzi, Pier Alberto ^b   Caporaso, Neil E ^b   Lubin, Jay H ^b   Wacholder, Sholom ^b   Landi, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

case control studies; lung cancer; sex differences; smoking

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; HISTOLOGY; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SMOKE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAGERSTROM TEST FOR NICOTINE DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; LARGE CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOBIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS;

ITALY; LOMBARDY;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84876009546     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws445     Document Type: Article

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