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Association between lung cancer incidence and family history of lung cancer: data from a large-scale population-based cohort study, the JPHC study.
Chest - 1 Oct 2006
Nitadori Jun-Ichi, Inoue Manami, Iwasaki Motoki, Otani Tetsuya, Sasazuki Shizuka, Nagai Kanji, Tsugane Shoichiro
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STUDY OBJECTIVES: To clarify the possibility of a hereditary predisposition to lung cancer, we investigated the association between a family history of lung cancer and subsequent risk of lung cancer in a large-scale, population-based cohort study. DESIGN: We investigated 102,255 middle-aged and older Japanese subjects (48,834 men and 53,421 women) with 13-year follow-up. A total of 791 cases of lung cancer were...
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