Prevalence of esophageal cancer risk factors among Turkmen and non-Turkmen ethnic groups in a high incidence area in Iran

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-115

  Marjani, Haji Amin ^a   Biramijamal, Firouzeh ^a   Hossein Nezhad, Arash ^a   Islami, Farhad ^b   Pourshmas, Akram ^b   Semnan, Shahrir ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC); Ethnicity; North east Iran

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TEA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 77949387686     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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