Hoffmann, Dietrich
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
New Aspects of Tobacco Carcinogenesis, 1985-09-08 - 1985-09-11
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The conference was organized through the joint efforts of Dr. Dietrich Hoffmann of the American Health Foundation and Dr. Curtis Harris of the National Cancer Institute. Representative research areas in epidemiology as well as laboratory studies in tobacco carcinogenesis were brought together with molecular and biochemical approaches concerned with mechanisms and assays of carcinogen-DNA interactions, cytogenetic lesions, and host factors that may influence susceptibility.
Dates:
1985-09-08 - 1985-09-11
Toward a Less Hazardous Cigarette, 1979-10-14 - 1979-10-16
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The conference heard presentations of evidence, such as declining lung cancer incidence among younger age groups in the United Kingdom, and United States studies reporting lower rates of lung cancer among filter-cigarette smokers and a reduced frequency of bronchial lesions in hospital patients of recent years
(with known smoking frequencies) compared with similar groups of patients 15 years earlier. All of this evidence indicates that the risk of smoking-related lung cancer is being reduced...
Dates:
1979-10-14 - 1979-10-16