Lung cancer * 1: Prevention of lung cancer
Open Access
- 1 November 2002
- Vol. 57 (11) , 994-999
- https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax.57.11.994
Abstract
Cancer of the lung causes more deaths from cancer worldwide than at any other site. The environmental, genetic, and dietary risk factors are discussed and progress in chemoprevention is reviewed. A better understanding of the molecular events that occur during carcinogenesis has opened up new areas of research in cancer prevention and a number of biochemical markers of high risk individuals have been identified. It is predicted that greater success in chemoprevention will be achieved in the next decade than in the last.Keywords
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