Bidi smoking and lung cancer incidence among males in Karunagappally cohort in Kerala, India

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1390-1397

  Jayalekshmy, Padmavathy Amma ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^b   Nair, Madhavan Krishnan ^c   Gangadharan, Paleth ^d   Rajan, Balakrishnan ^e   Nair, Reghuram K ^e   Sugahara, Tsutomu ^f  

^a Natural Background Radiation Cancer Registry   (India)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SUT Hospital   (India)

^d AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^e REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (India)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bidi; Cohort study; Incidence; India; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIDI SMOKING; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOSLEM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIGION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING CESSATION; SOUTH ASIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 49749136666     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23618     Document Type: Article

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