Article
Smoking and cancer.
The American journal of medicine - 15 Jul 1992
Carbone D
Abstract excerpt
An extensive body of epidemiologic data has linked cigarette smoking to a wide variety of neoplastic diseases. Smokers have been found to incur an increased relative risk of mortality from cancer of the lung, head and neck, urinary tract, pancreas, and bladder. Recent work has also implicated smoking in the risk of leukemia and myeloma. The magnitude of these risks has prompted research aimed at identifying the...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Carcinogens
- Female
- Genes, Retinoblastoma
- Genes, Tumor Suppressor
- Genes, p53
- Genes, ras
- Humans
- Lung Neoplasms
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation