Tobacco use and colon cancer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 10 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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β¦ Synopsis
the values in Table , Colon Cancer Risk Associated with Tobacco Use Among Women for packyears smoked and usual number of cigarettes smoked/day were in error. In most instances the differences in the point estimates are less than a hundredth of a decimal point different from those presented, however, the confidence intervals are slightly wider than those published. The interpretation and accompanying text is not altered by this error. The correct values for Table for women are:
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