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Geographic Trends Of Tobacco-Related Cancers In Cyprus, Evi A. Farazi, Lina Lander, Pavlos Pavlou, Katherine Watkins, Lynne Le, Amr Soliman
Geographic Trends Of Tobacco-Related Cancers In Cyprus, Evi A. Farazi, Lina Lander, Pavlos Pavlou, Katherine Watkins, Lynne Le, Amr Soliman
Journal Articles: Epidemiology
BACKGROUND: Causal relationships have been previously established between smoking and various cancers. In Cyprus, 39 % of men and 14 % of women reported daily smoking in 2008. The objective of this study was to compare the incidence of tobacco-related cancers to all other cancers by district and rural-urban classification to understand the impact of tobacco in Cyprus.
METHODS: Data on lung, urinary bladder, oral, pharyngeal, head/neck, and laryngeal cancers were obtained from the Cyprus Cancer Registry (1998-2008). There were 3,635 patients with tobacco-related cancers and 18,780 with non-tobacco cancers. Univariate analysis comparing tobacco-related cancers and all other cancers were …
Tropical Medicine Training In The Department Of Defense, Rodney L. Coldren, David Brett-Major, Patrick W. Hickey, Eric Garges, Peter J. Weina, Paula Corrigan, Gerald Quinnan
Tropical Medicine Training In The Department Of Defense, Rodney L. Coldren, David Brett-Major, Patrick W. Hickey, Eric Garges, Peter J. Weina, Paula Corrigan, Gerald Quinnan
Journal Articles: Epidemiology
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