Ethnicity and oral cancer

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 37-42

  Scully, Crispian ^a   Bedi, Raman ^a  

^a Dept of Oral Medicine and Pathology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MOUTH TUMOR; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIET; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 0034285720     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(00)00008-5     Document Type: Review

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