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Pre-diagnosis cigarette smoking and overall survival in non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Nicholas J Ollberding1, Andrew M Evens, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy

  • 1Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

British Journal of Haematology
|August 6, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
cigarettesmeta-analysisnon-Hodgkin lymphomapooled analysissmoking

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