Estimating the burden of head and neck cancers in the public health sector of Pakistan

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 529-532

  Chaudhry, Saima ^a   Khan, Ayyaz Ali ^a   Mirza, Kamran Masood ^a   Iqbal, Hafiz Aamer ^b   Masood, Yasmeen ^c   Khan, Nauman Rauf ^a   Izhar, Faisal ^a  

^a Shaikh Zayed Federal Postgraduate Medical Institute   (Pakistan)

^b SERVICES HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^c PAKISTAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Cancer registry data; Frequency; Head and neck cancers; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650930880     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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