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Chapter 6: Lung cancer in never smokers: epidemiology and risk prediction models.
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis - 1 Jul 2012
McCarthy William J, Meza Rafael, Jeon Jihyoun, Moolgavkar Suresh H
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In this chapter we review the epidemiology of lung cancer incidence and mortality among never smokers/nonsmokers and describe the never smoker lung cancer risk models used by the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Network (CISNET) modelers. Our review focuses on those influences likely to have measurable population impact on never smoker risk, such as secondhand smoke, even though the individual-level impact...
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