Assessment of perception of medical students in regard to links between tobacco or alcohol use and cancer

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2697-2700

  Alshammari, Fawaz Dabea ^a   Khalifa, Amany M ^a   Kosba, Ayman Ahmed ^a   Khalil, Nuhar A ^a   Ali, Safia M ^a   Hassouna, Mona M ^a   Elawad, Gamal Mohamed ^a   Ginaw, Ibrahim Abdelmajeed ^a   Ahmed, Hussain Gadelkarim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Cancer; Medical students; Saudi Arabia; Smoking; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

PASSIVE SMOKING;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEOPLASMS; PASSIVE SMOKING; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; SMOKING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928601586     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2015.16.7.2697     Document Type: Article

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