Risk factors for primary lung cancer among non-smoking women in Taiwan. | Zendy

YingChin Ko | Zendy; C H Lee | Zendy; M J Chen | Zendy; Ching-Hsuan Huang | Zendy; Wendy Y. Chang | Zendy; Hanyang Lin | Zendy; Hwei-Zu Wang | Zendy; Po-Ya Chang | Zendy

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Risk factors for primary lung cancer among non-smoking women in Taiwan.

Author(s) -

YingChin Ko,

C H Lee,

M J Chen,

Ching-Hsuan Huang,

Wendy Y. Chang,

Hanyang Lin,

Hwei-Zu Wang,

Po-Ya Chang

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/26.1.24

Subject(s) - medicine , lung cancer , odds ratio , logistic regression , risk factor , confidence interval , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , cancer , case control study , environmental health , optics , physics

Although cigarette smoking is considered to be the most important cause of lung cancer, smoking behaviour cannot fully explain the epidemiological characteristics of lung cancer in Taiwanese women, who rarely smoke but contract lung cancer relatively often. There are other causes of lung cancer that have produced variability in lung cancer incidence.

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