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SUBMITTER: Ahn S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7280985 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ahn Stephen S Han Kyung-Do KD Park Yong-Moon YM Bae Jung Min JM Kim Sang Uk SU Jeun Sin-Soo SS Yang Seung Ho SH
Cancers 20200525 5
The association between cigarette smoking and the risk of developing malignant glioma (MG) remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate this potential association in a large general population, using a well-established and validated longitudinal nationwide database. Using data from the Korean National Health Insurance System cohort, 9,811,768 people over 20 years old without any cancer history in 2009 were followed until the end of 2017. We documented 6100 MG cases (ICD-10 code C71) during the median f ...[more]