Preventive medicine
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Preventive medicine · May 2004
Impact of tobacco smoking on subsequent cancer risk among middle-aged Japanese men and women: data from a large-scale population-based cohort study in Japan--the JPHC study.
The present study aimed to obtain a relevant epidemiological index of the impact of tobacco smoking on the subsequent risk of cancer in Japan. ⋯ Our results suggest that 29% of male cancer and 3% of female cancer would be preventable in Japanese middle-aged population by avoidance of tobacco smoking.