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Lung Cancer Among the Jews
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Lung Cancer Among the Jews
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| Abstract |
The authors investigate patterns of mortality from lung cancer among Montreal Jews compared to other ethnic and religious groups between 1956 and 1966. Their purpose was to obtain histological and other data on lung cancers in these groups in order to test the hypothesis that the patterns of mortality from lung cancer could be accounted for by their cigarette smoking habits. They found a relatively low lung cancer death rate among Montreal Jewish males and a relatively high lung cancer death rate among the city's Jewish females. They concluded that their study showed that the proportion of epidermoid and anaplastic carcinomas was low for Jewish males relative to other Montreal males, suggesting that the low lung cancer death rate among Jewish males might be due to a low rate of cigarette smoking. However, their study also showed that, among Montreal Jewish females who died of lung cancer, the proportion who had epidermoid and anaplastic carcinomas and the proportion who smoked was not in excess of that found for other Montreal area females, suggesting that cigarette smoking may not be the reason for the high death rate in this group.
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American Journal of Public Health
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Vol. 60
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no. 2
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275-282
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February 1970
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en
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Horowitz, Isadore, and Philip E. Enterline. “Lung Cancer Among the Jews.” American Journal of Public Health Vol. 60, no. 2 (February 1970): 275–282. http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.60.2.275.
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