title: Studies of respiratory cancer in high risk communities.
abstract: Mortality from cancers of the respiratory tract show marked geographic variation within the U.S. This review describes the unusual patterns of these tumors, and traces how new clues to environmental and occupational determinants are being tested by epidemiologic studies in areas of the country where rates are high.
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009790:Occupations; D012142:Respiratory Tract Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D012306:Risk; D014481:United States