Effect of screening on oral cancer mortality in Kerala, India: A cluster-randomised controlled trial

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9475, 2005, Pages 1927-1933

  Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a   Ramadas, Kunnambath ^b   Thomas, Gigi ^b   Muwonge, Richard ^a   Thara, Somanathan ^b   Mathew, Babu ^b   Rajan, Balakrishnan ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIA; MORTALITY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING;

EID: 20444420193     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)66658-5     Document Type: Article

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