Incident cancers attributable to using opium and smoking cigarettes in the Golestan cohort studyResearch in context

Summary: Background: Opium consumption has recently been identified as a carcinogen, but the impact of opium use on cancer burden is unknown. We aimed to evaluate the fraction of cancers that could be attributed to opium use alone and in combination with cigarette smoking in a region where opium is...

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Main Authors: Karine Alcala, Hossein Poustchi, Vivian Viallon, Farhad Islami, Akram Pourshams, Alireza Sadjadi, Saeed Nemati, Masoud Khoshnia, Abdolsamad Gharavi, Gholamreza Roshandel, Maryam Hashemian, Sanford M. Dawsey, Christian C. Abnet, Paul Brennan, Paolo Boffetta, Kazem Zendehdel, Farin Kamangar, Reza Malekzadeh, Mahdi Sheikh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-10-01
Series:EClinicalMedicine
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537023004066