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Nanoquartz in Late Permian C1 coal and the high incidence of female lung cancer in the Pearl River Origin area: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: The Pearl River Origin area, Qujing District of Yunnan Province, has one of the highest female lung cancer mortality rates in China. Smoking was excluded as a cause of the lung cancer excess because almost all women were non-smokers. Crystalline silica embedded in the soot emissions from...

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Autores principales: Tian, Linwei, Dai, Shifeng, Wang, Jianfang, Huang, Yunchao, Ho, Suzanne C, Zhou, Yiping, Lucas, Donald, Koshland, Catherine P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2610032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055719
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-398