Early findings from a community-based, cluster-randomized, controlled oral cancer screening trial in Kerala, India

Cancer

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 664-673

  Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a   Mathew, Babu ^b   Jacob, Binu Jose ^b   Thomas, Gigi ^b   Somanathan, Thara ^b   Pisani, Paola ^a   Pandey, Manoj ^b   Ramadas, Kunnambath ^b   Najeeb, K ^c   Abraham, Elizabeth ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (India)

^c Primary Health Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Control; Early detection; Head and neck cancer; Leukoplakia; Mouth cancer; Oral cancer; Oral visual inspection; Randomized trial; Screening; Submucous fibrosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LEUKOPLAKIA; MOUTH CANCER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORAL SUBMUCOUS FIBROSIS; REGISTRIES; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERANCE;

EID: 0034141957     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(20000201)88:3<664::AID-CNCR25>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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