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Tobacco and alcohol consumption in relation to oral cancer

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The present case control study was done on 50 cases of oral cancer and 50 controls These two groups are compared after taking the history in detail with special emphasis on the tobacco and alcohol intake. My various statistical tests, we correlated the strength of association between tobacco/alcohol intake and development of oral cancer. Tobacco only and combined exposure to tobacco and alcohol was found to be strongly related to the development of oral cancer but alcohol alone does not have significant role in causation of oral cancer.

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Varshney, P.K., Agrawal, N. & Bariar, L.M. Tobacco and alcohol consumption in relation to oral cancer. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 55, 25–28 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02968748

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