Keynote comment: Why the lack of progress for oral cancer?

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 356-357

  Shah, Jatin P ^a   Singh, Bhuvanesh ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; LETTER; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH HYGIENE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EUROPE, EASTERN; FRANCE; INDIA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645973992     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70667-2     Document Type: Letter

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