Abstract Smoking increases the risk of peptic ulcer disease and also adversely affects its course.1 Both pharmacological and surgical treatments will lead to a relief from the symptoms of the disease.23 We analysed to what extent such potential relief would affect the subsequent risk of lung cancer in patients who had had a vagotomy for peptic ulcer disease, compared with patients with the disease who were treated without surgery.
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Ekbom et al. (1998) studied this question.
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