Air pollution: a smoking gun for cancer
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Air pollution: a smoking gun for cancer
Once considered a taboo topic or stigma, cancer is the number one public health enemy in the world. Once a product of an almost untouchable industry, tobacco is indisputably recognized as a major cause of cancer and a target for anticancer efforts. With the emergence of new economic powers in the world, especially in highly populated countries such as China, air pollution has rapidly emerged as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chinese Journal of Cancer
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1000-467X,1944-446X
DOI: 10.5732/cjc.014.10034