Tobacco chewing and female oral cavity cancer risk in Karunagappally cohort, India
Tobacco chewing and female oral cavity cancer risk in Karunagappally cohort, India
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DOI:
10.1038/sj.bjc.6604907
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发表时间:
2009-03-03
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Rajan, B.
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作者:
Jayalekshmi, P. A.;Gangadharan, P.;Rajan, B.
This study examined oral cancer in a cohort of 78 140 women aged 30-84 years in Karunagappally, Kerala, India, on whom baseline information was collected on lifestyle, including tobacco chewing, and sociodemographic factors during the period 1990-1997. By the end of 2005, 92 oral cancer cases were identified by the Karunagappally Cancer Registry. Poisson regression analysis of grouped data, taking into account age and income, showed that oral cancer incidence was strongly related to daily frequency of tobacco chewing (P