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Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency and Risk of Lung Cancer in Never-Smokers: A Multicentre Case-Control Study
2021-12-06
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<h4>Background: </h4> Lung cancer (LC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death in both sexes worldwide. Although its principal risk factor is smoking habit, there are genetic mutations, such as alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), that have been related with increased risk This study is the continuation of an earlier one published by the same group in 2015, aimed at an...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3bdcb510-0cbf-5285-a76f-635d3f12fd0e
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1032507/v1
