アイスランドの人口における肺がんの家族リスク

Steinn Jonsson1, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Daniel F Gudbjartsson

  • 1Department of Medicine, Landspitali-University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland.

JAMA
|December 23, 2004
PubMed
まとめ

遺伝的傾向は,特に早期発症した症例では,肺がんのリスクを増大させます. しかし,タバコの煙は,遺伝的に感受性の高い個体でも,主な原因であり続けています.

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