Outdoor air pollution and lung cancer: Recent epidemiologic evidence

Paolo VINEIS*, Francesco FORASTIERE, Gerard HOEK and Michael LIPSETT Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Turin and CPO-Piemonte, Turin, Italy Local Health Unit 10, Rome, Italy Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA, USA

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