Passive smoking and breast cancer in never smokers: prospective study and meta-analysis
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2008
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Pirie, Kirstin
Beral, Valerie
Peto, Richard
Roddam, Andrew W
Reeves, Gillian K
Green, Jane
Austoker, Joan
Banks, Emily
Church, Judith
English, Ruth
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Oxford University Press
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Background: Active smoking has little or no effect on women's risk of developing breast cancer, but it has been suggested that passive exposure to tobacco smoke may increase this risk among women who have never smoked. Objective: To evaluate the possible
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Keywords: cancer; cohort analysis; female; meta-analysis; risk assessment; smoking; article; breast cancer; cancer incidence; cancer risk; cigarette smoking; follow up; human; medical information; medical record; passive smoking; population exposure; priority journ Female breast cancer; Meta-analysis; Passive smoking; Prospective cohort study
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International Journal of Epidemiology
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