Head and neck cancer in India: Problems faced by treating oncosurgeon.
Keywords:
Head And Neck, Cancer, Awareness
Abstract
Head and neck cancer constitute one of the most common cancer in India. Unlike western, it is associated with trismus and submucosal fibrosis in indian patients which makes the treatment more difficult. Irrational and inappropriate treatment leads to higher recurrence and mortality rate in india.References
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3. Trivedi N P, Kekatpure V D, Trivedi N N, Kuriakose M A. Head and neck cancer in India: Need to formulate uniform national treatment guideline?. Indian J Cancer 2012;49:6-10
4. Mitali Dandekar, Vidisha Tuljapurkar, Harsh Dhar, Aru Panwar and Anil K. D Cruz :Head and neck cancers in India:Journal of Surgical Oncology: 2017;115;555–563.
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2017-12-24
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