1. 1. Our study adds to the evidence of the great increase in lung cancer which has become the most common cancer in men and, in some parts of the world, accounts for one-third of all cancer deaths in men. 2. 2. Occupational hazards such as exposure to uranium ores, chromates and...
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The study is the largest human SAGE study reported to date, and also generated a large SAGE library for future research. Tobacco smoking accounts for 85 percent of lung cancers, and former smokers account for half of those newly diagnosed with the disease. Source: BioMed Central...
Globally, lung cancer accounts for 11.6% and 18.4% of all cancer cases and deaths respectively1. In 2018, lung cancer accounted for 1.79 million deaths globally, with 2.09 million new cases diagnosed. Tobacco use is the primary cause of most lung cancers2,3, and although other methods of to...
One suggestion is that smoking is more common in urban than rural areas (Twigg, Moon, & Jones, 2000), although it is not clear whether smoking behaviour fully accounts for the urban/rural variations in lung cancer incidence. Haynes (1988) found an urban excess in lung cancer rates during ...
Cigarette smoking is the main preventable cause of premature death in the developed world. It accounts for more than 440, 000 deaths every year in the United States. When you smoke, toxic chemicals from tobacco enter your bloodstream. Some of these chemicals send signals to your heart to beat...
There are no advantages of smoking, I mean, NONE. Oh, I'm sorry, there is one – money. But this money does not go into your pocket; but to those who produce cigarettes make a fortune on your health. If you want to keep adding zeros in their bank accounts,it's your choice... ...
On the other hand, the hazard risk of cigarette smoking was found to be higher for differentiated than undifferentiated NPC26,27,28. Unlike undifferentiated NPC, differentiated NPC only accounts for a minor portion of NPC cases in such a high-risk population as Vietnam6. Wan-Lun Hsu et al....
lung cancer cases, resulting in ∼1.2 million deaths annually, and it accounts for ∼30% of all cancer cases in developed countries[2,4,5]. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer[4]identified tobacco smoking as the cause of cancer at more organ sites than any other ...
which accounts for the reported uncertainty in both the data and between-study heterogeneity, fit the data and covered the estimated residuals well (Fig.1c). After trimming 10% of outliers, we still detected publication bias in the results for lung cancer. See Supplementary Tables4and7for study...