## Abstract Each year approximately 40,000 people in the United States and 500,000 people worldwide are diagnosed with headβandβneck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC). Although there have been significant improvements in the treatment of this disease, leading to decreased morbidity, over the past few
Molecular pathogenesis of head and neck cancers
β Scribed by Bhuvanesh Singh
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 92 KB
- Volume
- 97
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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