[Epidemiology of lung cancer in former poison-gas workers and molecular approaches to lung cancer].
Former poison-gas workers were found to have a high incidence of respiratory neoplasia. The development of cancer in these people could be suppressed by the administration of Nocardia rubra cell-wall skeleton. Efforts to improve the prevention and treatment of lung cancer include studies of telomerase activity and genetic aberrations in samples from patients with cancer, monitoring of the concentration of anti-cancer drugs, and studies of the feasibility of gene therapy with adenovirus vectors.
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Second Department Internal Medicine, Hiroshima University School Medicine, Japan.
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