Education and lung cancer among never smokers

Gwenn Menvielle1, Thérèse Truong, Fatima Jellouli

  • 1INSERM, UMR_S 1136, Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France Inserm U1018, Center for Epidemiology and Population Health, Villejuif, France Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Aging Research, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany The University of Liverpool Cancer Research Centre, Institute of Translational Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Washington State University College of Pharmacy, Spokane, WA Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Houston, TX Departamento de Medicina, University of Oviedo, Campus del Cristo s/n, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Inserm U1085, Irset, 97110 Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, gwenn.menvielle@inserm.fr.

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