Air pollution: A potentially modifiable risk factor for lung cancer

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 674-678

  Fajersztajn, Laís ^a   Veras, Mariana ^a   Barrozo, Ligia Vizeu ^a   Saldiva, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHARCOAL; RADON;

AGE; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; BODY MASS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PASSIVE SMOKING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POLLUTION CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84883176582     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3572     Document Type: Review

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