منابع مشابه
Occupational exposure and lung cancer.
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for male and the second most usual cancer for women after breast cancer. Currently there are available several non-specific cytotoxic agents and several targeted agents for lung cancer therapy. However; early stage diagnosis is still unavailable and several efforts are being made towards this direction. Novel biomarkers are being investigated alo...
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Because tobacco smoking is a potent carcinogen, secondary causes of lung cancer are often diminished in perceived importance. The goal of this review is to describe the occurrence and recent findings of the 27 agents currently listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as lung carcinogens. The IARC's updated assessments of lung carcinogens provide a long-overdue resource f...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2574-1241
DOI: 10.26717/bjstr.2018.09.001859