How strong and how wide is the link between HPV and oropharyngeal cancer?

Lancet

Volumn 356, Issue 9233, 2000, Pages 871-872

  Franceschi, Silvia ^a   Muñoz, Nubia ^b   Snijders, Peter J F ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P53; VIRUS VACCINE;

CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NOTE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VIRUS TRANSCRIPTION; WART VIRUS;

EID: 0034626063     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02673-8     Document Type: Note

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