Tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, and the risk of different histological types of nasopharyngeal cancer in a low-risk population

Oral Oncology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 541-545

  Polesel, Jerry ^a   Franceschi, Silvia ^b   Talamini, Renato ^a   Negri, Eva ^c   Barzan, Luigi ^d   Montella, Maurizio ^e   Libra, Massimo ^f   Vaccher, Emanuela ^a   Franchin, Giovanni ^a   La Vecchia, Carlo ^c,g   Serraino, Diego ^a  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^d S MARIA DEGLI ANGELI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Case control study; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Tobacco smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING HABIT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958031760     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: 18790593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2011.03.017     Document Type: Article

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