Alcohol-containing mouthwashes and oropharyngeal cancer: A spurious association due to underascertainment of confounders?

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1091-1095

  Shapiro, Samuel ^a   Castellana, John V ^b   Sprafka, J Michael ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Margaret Hurley and Associates   (United States)

^c PROCTER AND GAMBLE PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

confounding factors (epidemiology); oropharyngeal neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; MOUTH HYGIENE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; REVIEW; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 0029831555     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a008886     Document Type: Review

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