Long term effect of visual screening on oral cancer incidence and mortality in a randomized trial in Kerala, India

Oral Oncology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 314-321

  Sankaranarayanan, Rengaswamy ^a   Ramadas, Kunnambath ^b   Thara, Somanathan ^b   Muwonge, Richard ^a   Thomas, Gigi ^b   Anju, Gopan ^b   Mathew, Babu ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Early detection; Mortality; Oral cancer; Oral visual inspection; Prevention; Randomized trial; Screening

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84875256759     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: 18790593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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