Smokeless tobacco and cigarette smoking: chemical mechanisms and cancer prevention

SS Hecht, DK Hatsukami - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Tobacco products present a deadly combination of nicotine addiction and carcinogen
exposure resulting in millions of cancer deaths per year worldwide. A plethora of smokeless …

Biochemistry of nicotine metabolism and its relevance to lung cancer

SE Murphy - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - ASBMB
Nicotine is the key addictive constituent of tobacco. It is not a carcinogen, but it drives
smoking and the continued exposure to the many carcinogens present in tobacco. The …

Syndrome of combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema: an official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT research statement

V Cottin, M Selman, Y Inoue, AW Wong… - American journal of …, 2022 - atsjournals.org
Background: The presence of emphysema is relatively common in patients with fibrotic
interstitial lung disease. This has been designated combined pulmonary fibrosis and …

Risk model–based lung cancer screening and racial and ethnic disparities in the US

E Choi, VY Ding, SJ Luo, K Ten Haaf, JT Wu… - JAMA …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The revised 2021 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines for
lung cancer screening have been shown to reduce disparities in screening eligibility and …

Methods for using race and ethnicity in prediction models for lung cancer screening eligibility

R Landy, I Gomez, TJ Caverly, K Kawamoto… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Using race and ethnicity in clinical prediction models can reduce or inadvertently
increase racial and ethnic disparities in medical decisions. Objective To compare eligibility …

Racial/ethnic differences in lung cancer incidence in the multiethnic cohort study: an update

DO Stram, SL Park, CA Haiman… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background We previously found that African Americans and Native Hawaiians were at
highest lung cancer risk compared with Japanese Americans and Latinos; whites were …

[HTML][HTML] Electronic cigarette use and its association with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome among never …

E Bircan, U Bezirhan, A Porter, P Fagan… - Tobacco induced …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
METHODS Cross-sectional data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
(BRFSS) from 2016 to 2018 were used to examine self-reported information on current e …

Cancer in Africa: is it a genetic or environmental health problem?

AA Bahnassy, MS Abdellateif, ARN Zekri - Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Patients of African ancestry have the poorest outcome and the shortest survival rates from
cancer globally. This could be attributed to many variables including racial, biological …

LKB1 phosphorylation and deactivation in lung cancer by NNAL, a metabolite of tobacco-specific carcinogen, in an isomer-dependent manner

T Bian, Y Wang, JF Botello, Q Hu, Y Jiang, A Zingone… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
LKB1 loss of function is one key oncogenic event in lung cancer. Clinical data suggest that
LKB1 loss of function is associated with patients' smoking status. The responsible …

Quantitative Liquid Chromatography–Nanoelectrospray Ionization–High-Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Acrolein-DNA Adducts and Etheno-DNA …

V Paiano, L Maertens, V Guidolin, J Yang… - Chemical research in …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Cigarette smoking is an important source of human exposure to toxicants and carcinogens
and contributes significantly to cancer morbidity and mortality worldwide. Acrolein, a …