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Household coal use and lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis of case-control studies, with an emphasis on geographic variation.

H Dean HD Hosgood, Hu H Wei, Amir A Sapkota, Imran I Choudhury, Nigel N Bruce, Kirk R KR Smith, Nathaniel N Rothman, and Qing Q Lan

Int J Epidemiol 40(3):719-28 (2011) PMID 21278196 PMCID PMC3147068

Emissions from household coal combustion associated with cooking and heating are an important public health issue, particularly in China where hundreds of millions of people are exposed. Although coal emissions are a known human carcinogen, there is still uncertainty about the level of risk for lung and other cancers.

DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyq259
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