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How smoking sets the stage for lung cancer | Explained

How smoking sets the stage for lung cancer | Explained

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Chronic smoke exposure alters lung stem cells and weakens their safety mechanisms and local immune defences, creating a precancerous state; common KRAS and TP53 mutations triggered tumours only in smoke-conditioned tissue, showing how smoking primes cells for cancer

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