Introduction to Epidemiology 6th Edition by Ray M Merrill

Exercise 5

What types of epidemiologic studies were used by Doll and Hill?

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The associations of smoking and lung cancer studies were done by Doll and Hill in Britain and Wynder and Graham in United States in 1950s. These investigative studies included the findings of those people who have lung cancer. Then found whether the cancerous people are different from normal healthy people with respect of their smoking history.