## BACKGROUND. Oral cancer satisfies the criteria for a suitable disease for screening, and oral visual inspection is a suitable test for oral cancer screening. The efficacy of screening in reducing mortality from oral cancer has not yet been evaluated. The authors describe a cluster-randomized, co
Interim results from a cluster randomized controlled oral cancer screening trial in Kerala, India
✍ Scribed by K. Ramadas; R. Sankaranarayanan; Binu Jose Jacob; Gigi Thomas; Thara Somanathan; Cedric Mahé; Manoj Pandey; Elizabeth Abraham; S. Najeeb; Babu Mathew; D.M. Parkin; M.Krishnan Nair
- Book ID
- 114393997
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1368-8375
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