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Genetic polymorphisms and lung cancer susceptibility: a review.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Sept 2002
Kiyohara Chikako, Otsu Akiko, Shirakawa Taro, Fukuda Sanae, Hopkin Julian M
Abstract excerpt
Lung cancer is a major cause of cancer-related death in the developed countries and the overall survival rate has still an extremely poor. Cigarette smoking is an established risk factor for lung cancer although a possible role for genetic susceptibility in the development of lung cancer has been inferred from familial clustering of the disease and segregation analyzes. Everyone may have a unique combination of...
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