Re: Smoking and lung cancer: recent evidence and a discussion of some questions.
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Thank you for republishing the landmark paper by Cornfield et al., which the late George Comstock felt should be read by all epidemiologists at least once per year. Of the many innovative aspects for which this paper is praised, we would like to add here one that is rarely mentioned. Appendix B of the paper provides the algebraic proof of an important property of risk ratios described in the body of the paper as follows:
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Smoking and lung cancer: recent evidence and a discussion of some questions.
This report reviews some of the more recent epidemiologic and experimental findings on the relationship of tobacco smoking to lung cancer, and discusses some criticisms directed against the conclusion that tobacco smoking, especially cigarettes, has a causal role in the increase in broncho-genic carcinoma. The magnitude of the excess lung-cancer risk among cigarette smokers is so great that the...
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Conflict of interest: None declared. References 1 Cornfield J, Haenszel W, Hammond EC, Lilienfeld AM, Shimkin MB, Wynder EL. Smoking and lung cancer: recent evidence and a discussion of some principles. J Natl Cancer Inst 1959;22:173–204. Reprinted Int J Epidemiol 2009;38:1175–91. 2 Cochran WG. The planning of observational studies of human populations (with discussion). J R Stat Soc A 1965;128...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- International journal of epidemiology
دوره 39 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010