Prevalence and causes of air pollution and lung cancer in Xuanwei City and Fuyuan County, Yunnan Province, China

Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr. GB Zhou (Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) for providing the idea to write the current article, and Mr. YZ Xiao (Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Kunming) as well as Mr. JH Li (Qujing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qujing) for providing some data. The current research was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2011CB510104) and a grant from the Yunnan Province Science and Technology Department (No. Y103951111).

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