Chewing of betel, areca and tobacco: Perceptions and knowledge regarding their role in head and neck cancers in an urban squatter settlement in Pakistan

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 95-100

  Khawaja, Muhammad RizwanulHaq ^a   Mazahir, Samia ^a   Majeed, Atif ^a   Malik, Farida ^a   Merchant, Kanwal AliRaza ^a   Maqsood, Maria ^a   Malik, Rabia ^a   Ghaffar, Shehzad ^b   Fatmi, Zafar ^b  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Areca; Betel; Head and neck cancers; Knowledge; Pakistan; Smokeless tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BETEL NUT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PATHOLOGY; PIPER BETLE; PLANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SURVIVAL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARECA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PIPER BETLE; PLANTS, TOXIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33745234119     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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