Mouth Cancer in India : A New Epidemic ?

Journal of the Indian Medical Association

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 370-373

  Gupta, Prakash C ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH DISEASE; MOUTH TUMOR; PLANT; SMOKELESS TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; ORAL SUBMUCOUS FIBROSIS; PLANTS, TOXIC; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 0033182795     PISSN: 00195847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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