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What Is the Main Cause of Cancer?

Version 1 : Received: 10 August 2016 / Approved: 11 August 2016 / Online: 11 August 2016 (11:40:40 CEST)

How to cite: López-Lázaro, M. What Is the Main Cause of Cancer?. Preprints 2016, 2016080130. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0130.v1 López-Lázaro, M. What Is the Main Cause of Cancer?. Preprints 2016, 2016080130. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201608.0130.v1

Abstract

Tobacco use, most people would say. Smoking tobacco increases the risk of developing many types of cancer and is responsible for approximately one-third of all cancer deaths. The association between tobacco use and lung cancer is well known; lung cancer occurs about 20 times more often in heavy smokers than in nonsmokers [1]. However, many lung cancers are diagnosed in never smokers [2], and most smokers do not develop lung cancer [3,4].

Keywords

carcinogenesis; cancer; age distribution of cancer

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Oncology and Oncogenics

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