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Joint effects of environmental exposures and familial susceptibility to lung cancer in Chinese never smoking men and women.
Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer - 1 Aug 2014
Tse Lap Ah, Yu Ignatius Tak-Sun, Rothman Nathaniel, Ji Bu-Tian, Qiu Hong, Wang Xiao-Rong, Hu Wei, Au Joseph Siu-Kie, Lan Qing
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: Previous epidemiological studies had limited power to investigate the joint effects of individual environmental risk factors and familial susceptibility to lung cancer. This study aimed to address this shortcoming. METHODS: We recruited 345 never smoking lung cancer cases and 828 community referents. We developed a collective environmental exposure index by assigning a value of 1 to subjects at high...
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