Lung cancer trends: smoking, obesity, and sex assessed in the Staten Island University’s lung cancer patients

INTRODUCTION: The incidence of lung cancer in the United States decreased by 1.8% from 1991 to 2005 while it increased by 0.5% in females. We assessed whether nonsmokers afflicted with lung cancer at Staten Island University Hospital are disproportionately female in comparison to national averages....

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Autores principales: Gupta, Shilpi, Hassan, Samer, Bhatt, Vijaya R, Abdul Sater, Houssein, Dilawari, Asma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4085324/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061333
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJGM.S55806

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