Although prostate cancer is a major disease, causal factors are only partially understood. We examined occupational risk factors for this disease in a large case control study among U.S. blacks and whites. The study included 981 new pathologically confirmed prostate cancer cases (479 blacks and 502
Tobacco use and prostate cancer in Blacks and Whites in the United States
โ Scribed by Richard B. Hayes; Linda M. Pottern; G. Marie Swanson; Jonathan M. Liff; Janet B. Schoenberg; Raymond S. Greenberg; Ann Grossbart Schwartz; Linda Morris Brown; Debra T. Silverman; Robert N. Hoover
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 511 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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