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Women and lung cancer: what is new?
Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery - 1 Jan 2013
North Crystal M, Christiani David C
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In the last 20 years, there has been an increased focus on gender differences in health and disease. The earliest studies of lung cancer enrolled mainly men, as the incidence of lung cancer among women was exceedingly low. As social patterns changed around World War II and women began to smoke more, the epidemiology of lung cancer has changed. The higher percentage of lung cancer in nonsmoking women as compared...
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