Background. Previous research has demonstrated that there is clustering of cancer among relatives of patients with lung cancer and that women may be at a greater risk than men, regardless of their smoking histories. Methods. The authors conducted a study to test the hypotheses that this predisposit
Lung cancer histologic type and family history of cancer
โ Scribed by Thomas A. Sellers; Robert C. Elston; Larry D. Atwood; Henry Rothschild
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 523 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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