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Estimation of the effects of smoking and DNA repair capacity on coefficients of a carcinogenesis model for lung cancer.
International journal of cancer - 1 May 2009
Deng Li, Kimmel Marek, Foy Millennia, Spitz Margaret, Wei Qingyi, Gorlova Olga
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Numerous prospective and retrospective studies have clearly demonstrated a dose-related increased lung cancer risk associated with cigarette smoking, with evidence also for a genetic component to risk. In this study, using the two-stage clonal expansion stochastic model framework, for the first time we investigated the roles of both genetic susceptibility and smoking history in the initiation, clonal expansion,...
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