Risk Factors for Lung Cancer

• smoking tobacco?

• smoking other drugs of abuse (marijuana, other)?

• heavy exposure to indoor cooking oil fumes (rapeseed, soy, other)?

• exposure to radon?

• exposure to asbestos?

• uranium mining?

• other forms of mining?

• exposure to heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, chromium, nickel)?

• exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons?

• exposure to vinyl chloride?

• exposure to bis(chloromethyl)ether (BCME)?

• chronic pulmonary inflammation?

• heavy medical radiation to the thorax?

• exposure to heavy air pollution?

• human papilloma virus (HPV) infection of the airways?

• lung cancer?

• other cancers?