Cigarette smoking and the risk of pulmonary metastasis from breast cancer

S Murin, J Inciardi - Chest, 2001 - Elsevier
Study objectives To determine whether there is an association between cigarette smoking
and the development of pulmonary metastatic disease among women with breast cancer.
Design A case-control study. Setting The University of California, Davis Medical Center.
Participants Eighty-seven women patients with unilateral, invasive breast cancer and
pulmonary metastatic disease were identified as cases, and each patient was matched with
two control patients who did not have pulmonary metastatic disease. Case patients and …