Lung Cancer
Recent findings in lung cancer described by researchers from Cancer Center
Published in Oncology Business Week, December 3rd, 2006
Investigators publish new data in the report "A biomarker of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and Ernst Wynder's opinion about ETS and lung cancer. Ernst Wynder did not believe that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), also known as secondhand smoke, was a cause of lung cancer because his own data did not support this. His view on the issue may have begun to change with our initial studies, carried out at the American Health Foundation, showing that metabolites of the tobacco-specific lung carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) were present in the urine of non-smokers exposed to ETS," scientists writing in the journal Preventive Medicine...
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