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Different susceptibility to smoking-induced DNA damage among male and female lung cancer patients.
Cancer research - 15 Nov 1994
Ryberg D, Hewer A, Phillips D H, Haugen A
Abstract excerpt
The levels of aromatic/hydrophobic DNA adducts were analyzed in normal lung tissue from 63 lung cancer patients and examined in relation to exposure and genetic factors. Adduct levels were significantly higher in smokers than in nonsmokers, but among smokers the number of cigarettes smoked per day had only low significance for the variation in adduct levels. An inverse correlation was found between years of...
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