PT Journal
AU Kollarova, H
   Janout, V
   Cizek, L
TI Epidemiology of lung cancer.
SO Biomedical papers
PY 2002
BP 103
EP 114
VL 146
IS 2
DI 10.5507/bp.2002.022
DE Lung cancer / Epidemiology / Risk factors
AB This review article presents lung cancer epidemiology, describing main epidemiologic characteristics including epidemiological situation in cancer incidence, mortality and survival in Europe in comparison with situation in the Czech Republic. Influence of environmental and life style risk factors like smoking, passive smoking, risk factors of work environment, ionizing radiation, air pollution, nutrition and genetic and hormonal factors are discussed.
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