Lung cancer 2020: epidemiology, etiology, and prevention

BC Bade, CSD Cruz - Clinics in chest medicine, 2020 - chestmed.theclinics.com
Notable changes in lung cancer epidemiology and prevention have occurred over the past
decade owing to changes in smoking patterns, groundbreaking advances in our …

Risk factors of Lung Cancer in nonsmoker

N Akhtar, JG Bansal - Current problems in cancer, 2017 - Elsevier
Generally, the cause of lung cancer is attributed to tobacco smoking. But many of the new
lung cancer cases have been reported in nonsmokers. Apart from smoking; air pollution …

Alcohol and human health: what is the evidence?

HFJ Hendriks - Annual review of food science and technology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Alcohol consumption has long been a part of human culture. However, alcohol consumption
levels and alcohol consumption patterns are associated with chronic diseases. Overall, light …

[HTML][HTML] Body mass index (BMI), BMI change, and overall survival in patients with SCLC and NSCLC: a pooled analysis of the international lung cancer consortium

D Shepshelovich, W Xu, L Lu, A Fares, P Yang… - Journal of Thoracic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction The relationships between morbid obesity, changes in body mass index (BMI)
before cancer diagnosis, and lung cancer outcomes by histology (SCLC and NSCLC) have …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-cancer evaluation of polygenic risk scores for 16 cancer types in two large cohorts

RE Graff, TB Cavazos, KK Thai, L Kachuri… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Even distinct cancer types share biological hallmarks. Here, we investigate polygenic risk
score (PRS)-specific pleiotropy across 16 cancers in European ancestry individuals from the …

Lung cancer and residential radon in never-smokers: A pooling study in the Northwest of Spain

M Lorenzo-González, A Ruano-Ravina… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Using a pooled case-control study design, including only never-smokers, we
have assessed the association of residential radon exposure with the subsequent …

Involvement of microRNA modifications in anticancer effects of major polyphenols from green tea, coffee, wine, and curry

T Ohishi, S Hayakawa, N Miyoshi - Critical Reviews in Food …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Epidemiological studies have shown that consumption of green tea, coffee, wine, and curry
may contribute to a reduced risk of various cancers. However, there are some cancer site …

[HTML][HTML] Development of an evidence-based risk assessment framework

D Krewski, P Saunders-Hastings, RA Baan… - Altex, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Assessment of potential human health risks associated with environmental and other agents
requires careful evaluation of all available and relevant evidence for the agent of interest …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of modest drinking on life expectancy and mortality risks: a population-based cohort study

YT Liu, JH Lee, MK Tsai, JCC Wei, CP Wen - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Modest drinking has been repeatedly discussed in scientific papers as protective against
certain diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, but in most cases, alcohol worsens …

Functional validity, role, and implications of heavy alcohol consumption genetic loci

A Thompson, J Cook, H Choquet, E Jorgenson… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
High alcohol consumption is a risk factor for morbidity and mortality, yet few genetic loci
have been robustly associated with alcohol intake. Here, we use UK Biobank (n= 125,249) …