Open AccessCigarette Smoking and Colorectal Cancer Mortality in the Cancer Prevention Study II
Author(s) -
Ann Chao
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the national cancer institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.797
H-Index - 356
eISSN - 1460-2105
pISSN - 0027-8874
DOI - 10.1093/jnci/92.23.1888
Subject(s) - medicine , colorectal cancer , confounding , demography , confidence interval , cancer , cancer prevention , cohort study , relative risk , prospective cohort study , multivariate analysis , proportional hazards model , cigarette smoking , cohort , epidemiology , sociology
Recent studies suggest that long-term cigarette smoking is associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer. Whether the association is causal or due to confounding remains unclear.