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Cigarette smoking, metabolic activation and carcinogenesis.
Current drug metabolism - 1 Oct 2004
Nishikawa Akiyoshi, Mori Yukio, Lee In-Seon, Tanaka Takuji, Hirose Masao
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiologically, it has been suggested that cigarette smoking is closely associated with an increased risk of cancers in various organs such as the lung, oropharynx, stomach, pancreas, liver and colon. Nevertheless, influences of cigarette smoking on experimental tumorigenesis in organs other than the respiratory tract remain to be elucidated. In our experimental studies, it has been shown that cigarette smoke...
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