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Medical study · Medical research · 1998

Association between diet and lung cancer location

This study used data from a hospital case-control study to look at 328 patients with newly diagnosed primary lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital between December 1992 and August 1996. Almost all had tumors that…
Medical study · Medical research · 1998

Association of cigarette smoking and asbestos exposure with location and histology of lung cancer

The authors analyzed 456 patients with newly diagnosed, surgically removed stage I or II lung cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, from December 1992 to August 1996. The patients were the case group of a larger…
Medical study · Medical research · 2013

Asbestos and lung cancer: what we know

…than fourfold increased risk. These studies had been criticized for comparing insulators with the U.S. general population and for not adjusting for smoking. The new study followed 2,377 insulators with chest X-ray, spirometric…
Medical study · Medical research · 2020

Asbestos, Pleural Plaques, and Lung Cancer: Untangling the Relationships

…depends on precise exposure estimates. The author concluded that people with known moderate to heavy exposure should not be denied CT screening because they lack plaques. In general populations, the author wrote, bilateral plaques should prompt…

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