Creating lung cancer risk models for specific populations refines prediction
Friday, September 5, 2008 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
Lung cancer risk prediction models are enhanced by taking into account risk factors by race and by measuring DNA repair capacity, according to research teams led by epidemiologists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in two complementary papers appearing in the September issue of Cancer Prevention Research.
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