Role of tobacco smoking, chewing and alcohol drinking in the risk of oral cancer in Trivandrum, India: A nested case-control design using incident cancer cases

Oral Oncology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 446-454

  Muwonge, Richard ^a   Ramadas, Kunnambath ^b   Sankila, Risto ^c   Thara, Somanathan ^b   Thomas, Gigi ^b   Vinoda, Jissa ^b   Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (India)

^c FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Control; Developing countries; Oral cancer; Pan chewing; Prevention; Tobacco smoking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MASTICATION; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 42949117881     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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