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Prevalence and types of high-risk human papillomaviruses in head and neck cancers from Bangladesh.
BMC cancer - 25 Nov 2017
Shaikh Mushfiq H, Khan Aminul I, Sadat Anwar, Chowdhury Ahmed H, Jinnah Shahed A, Gopalan Vinod, Lam Alfred K, Clarke Daniel T W, McMillan Nigel A J, Johnson Newell W
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: There is a dramatic rise in the incidence of Human papillomavirus (HPV) - associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) in the world, with considerable variation by geography, gender and ethnicity. Little is known about the situation in Bangladesh, where tobacco- and areca nut-related head and neck cancers (HNCs) are the most common cancers in men. We aimed to determine the prevalence of...
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