Lung cancer, smoking patterns, and mutagen sensitivity in Mexican-Americans.

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Lung cancer, smoking patterns, and mutagen sensitivity in Mexican-Americans.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs - 1 Jan 1995

Strom S S, Wu S, Sigurdson A J, Hsu T C, Fueger J J, Lopez J, Tee P G, Spitz M R

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BACKGROUND: Mexican-Americans have lower age-adjusted lung cancer incidence rates than non-Hispanic whites and African-Americans. Since 87% of lung cancers are attributed to tobacco exposure, this difference could be explained partly by lower prevalence of cigarette smoking. However, only a fract...

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Black or African American
Aged
Black People
Bleomycin
Case-Control Studies
Cells, Cultured
Chromosome Aberrations
Comorbidity
Disease Susceptibility
Female
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Humans
Incidence
Lung Neoplasms
Lymphocytes
Male
Mexican Americans
Middle Aged

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PMID: 8562219

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