Regional differences in tobacco smoking and lung cancer in Portugal in 2018: a population-based analysis using nationwide incidence and mortality data

Objectives This study aims to estimate the proportion of lung cancer cases and deaths attributable to tobacco smoking in Portugal in 2018, complemented by trends in incidence and mortality, by sex and region.Design Cancer cases for 1998–2011 and cancer deaths for 1991–2018 were obtained from populat...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Joana Bastos, Gonçalo Forjaz, Clara Castro, Alexandra Mayer, Anne-Michelle Noone, Huann-Sheng Chen, Angela B Mariotto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2020-10-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/10/e038937.full