RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Kollárová, Helena
A1 Janout, Vladimír
A1 Čížek, Luděk
T1 Epidemiology of lung cancer.
JF Biomedical papers
YR 2002
VO 146
IS 2
SP 103
OP 114
DO 10.5507/bp.2002.022
UL https://biomed.papers.upol.cz/artkey/bio-200202-0022.php
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.