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Contact: Julia Evangelou Strait
straitj@wustl.edu
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Washington University School of Medicine
Caption: Lung cancer patients with a history of smoking have 10 times more genetic mutations in their tumors than those with the disease who have never smoked, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Credit: Jim Dryden
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