Article
Chemoprevention of lung cancer.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Dec 2001
van Zandwijk N
Abstract excerpt
Among all cancer, lung cancer has the highest rate of mortality in the western world. The persisting grim lung cancer mortality figures argue powerfully for new approaches for controlling this disease such as chemoprevention that has been defined as the use of agents that inhibit or reverse lung carcinogenesis. Carcinogens from cigarette smoke are implicated in about 90% of male and 75-80% of female lung cancer...
Topics
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Chemoprevention
- Diet
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms
- Neoplasms, Second Primary
- Retinoids
- Risk Factors
- Smoking