Lung cancer • 1: Prevention of lung cancer

Cancer of the lung causes more deaths from cancer worldwide than at any other site. The environmental, genetic, and dietary risk factors are discussed and progress in chemoprevention is reviewed. A better understanding of the molecular events that occur during carcinogenesis has opened up new areas...

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Published inThorax Vol. 57; no. 11; pp. 994 - 999
Main Author Goodman, G E
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London BMJ 01.11.2002
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
BMJ Group
Subjects
beta Carotene - therapeutic use
Biological and medical sciences
Biomarkers, Tumor - analysis
Carcinogens
Cell division
Chemoprevention - methods
Cigarettes
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Diet - adverse effects
DNA
DNA repair
Enzymes
Female
Health risk assessment
Humans
Kinases
Lung cancer
Lung Neoplasms - prevention & control
Male
Medical sciences
Mens health
Metabolism
Metabolites
Pneumology
Prevention
Retinoids - therapeutic use
Review Series
Risk Factors
Rodents
Smoking
Studies
Tobacco
Tumors
Tumors of the respiratory system and mediastinum
Women
Denmark
Canada
Europe
Human
Drug
Lung disease
Respiratory disease
Pathogenesis
Treatment efficiency
Biological marker
Malignant tumor
Carcinogenesis
Genetic determinism
Bronchopulmonary
Prevention
Chemotherapy
Treatment
Risk factor
Bronchus disease
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Summary:Cancer of the lung causes more deaths from cancer worldwide than at any other site. The environmental, genetic, and dietary risk factors are discussed and progress in chemoprevention is reviewed. A better understanding of the molecular events that occur during carcinogenesis has opened up new areas of research in cancer prevention and a number of biochemical markers of high risk individuals have been identified. It is predicted that greater success in chemoprevention will be achieved in the next decade than in the last.
ISSN:0040-6376
1468-3296
DOI:10.1136/thorax.57.11.994