A series of 359 male patients with 424 cancer lesions of the oral cavity and oropharynx identified at a US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center were divided according to site of origin of the lesion and compared with 2,280 controls from the same hospital with respect to exposure to tobacco
Tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, and cancer of the oral cavity and oropharynx among U.S. veterans
β Scribed by Arthur Mashberg; Paolo Boffetta; Regina Winkelman; Lawrence Garfinkel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 684 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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