Cigarette smoking and p53 mutations in lung cancer and bladder cancer.

doi:10.1289/ehp.96104s3553

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Cigarette smoking and p53 mutations in lung cancer and bladder cancer.

Environmental health perspectives - 1 May 1996

Husgafvel-Pursiainen K, Kannio A

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We report here a compilation of p53 mutation results from two smoking-related cancers, lung cancer and bladder cancer. The overall mutation frequencies reported for these two types of cancer were relatively similar--50% in lung cancer and 40% in bladder cancer. The compiled data from lung cancer...

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Genes, p53
Humans
Lung Neoplasms
Mutation
Smoking
Urinary Bladder Neoplasms

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