Can we prevent malignancy by treating premalignant lesions?

Oral Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 549-550

  Holmstrup, Palle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LEUKOPLAKIA; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NONHUMAN; ORAL BIOPSY; ORAL SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONGUE CARCINOMA;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; LEUKOPLAKIA, ORAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 67449087594     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2008.08.007     Document Type: Editorial

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