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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on December 21, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(4):394-395; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj065
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Letter to the Editor

RE: "CANCER MORTALITY AMONG US MEN AND WOMEN WITH ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER"

Matthew B. Schabath, Olga Y. Gorlova and Margaret R. Spitz

Department of Epidemiology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230-1439

e-mail: mschabat@mdanderson.org

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Two recently published articles in the Journal have provided further evidence to support the notion that prior histories of inflammatory- and/or allergy-related diseases are inversely associated with lung cancer risk. In a large prospective cohort study of over 1.1 million US men and women, Turner et al. (1Go) reported significant inverse associations between a history of both asthma and hay fever (relative . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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