Familial Lung Cancer and Aggregation of Smoking Habits: A Simulation of the Effect of Shared Environmental Factors on the Familial Risk of Cancer

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BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is the principal cause of lung cancer. The risk of lung cancer in the offspring of lung cancer patients is about twice higher than the risk in the general population. The present study investigated the contribution of shared smoking habits to the familial clustering of lung cancer. METHODS: We estimated the relative risk of lung cancer attributable to smoking according to the extent to...

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