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Health check-up cohort reveals telomere length links to lung cancer risk in individuals with nodules, suggesting important implications for monitoring.
In this health check-up cohort of individuals with pulmonary nodules, longer rLTL was independently associated with increased lung cancer risk. Our findings highlight a potentially paradoxical role of telomere biology in lung carcinogenesis and suggest that rLTL may serve as a useful biomarker for malignancy risk stratification in nodule surveillance.
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