TP53 and lung carcinoma: On the contrary, the p53 codon 72 polymorphism was confirmed to be related to an elevated risk of lung cancer in other studies Chua et al., 2010; Hossain et al., 2017; Hiraki et al., 2003; Sakiyama et al., 2005; Zhang et al., 2006; Jung et al., 2008).