Exposure to second-hand smoke and risk of lung cancer among Iranian population: A multicenter case-control study

• Fereshte Lotfi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fereshte Lotfi, Hamideh Rashidian

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Hamideh Rashidian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fereshte Lotfi, Hamideh Rashidian

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Maryam Hadji,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliations Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Health Sciences Unit, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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• Elham Mohebbi,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0868-4067

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• Maryam Marzban,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Bushehr University of Medical Science, Bushehr, Iran, Statistical Genetics Lab, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

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• Ahmad Naghibzadeh-Tahami,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliations Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

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• Eero Pukkala,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Health Sciences Unit, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Finnish Cancer Registry—Institute for Statistical and Epidemiological Cancer Research, Helsinki, Finland

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• Paolo Boffetta,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

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• Arash Etemadi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kazem Zendehdel

  Roles Project administration

  * E-mail: kzendeh@sina.tums.ac.ir

  Affiliations Cancer Research Center, Cancer Institute of Iran, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0269-4945

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