How smoking sets the stage for lung cancer, glimpsed in new study

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   The Hindu Health India mainstream study

   How smoking sets the stage for lung cancer, glimpsed in new study

   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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