Oral cancer in Appalachia

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 274-285

  Casto, Bauce C ^a,b   Sharma, Smita ^a,c   Fisher, James L ^a,d   Knobloch, Thomas J ^a,c   Agrawal, Amit ^a,e   Weghorst, Christopher M ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Environmental Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Occupational Health   (United States)

^d Division of Epidemiology

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachia; Incidence; Mortality; Oral cancer; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

APPALACHIAN REGION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 63249136852     PISSN: 10492089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hpu.0.0097     Document Type: Article

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