Perceived Benefits, Knowledge about Cancer and Attitude towards Promotion of Gutkha Amongst Gutkha users from Nepal
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Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Effect of Gutkha: A Fast-growing Smokeless Tobacco
Oral cancer is a highly lethal disease and one of the most debilitating and disfiguring of all malignancies in the world. According to Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2010 report, 60% of tobacco users in India use only smokeless tobacco. Among 206 million smokeless tobacco users, 65.1 million are consuming gutkha. In recent years, gutkha is recognized as a life threatening disorder with the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Birat Journal of Health Sciences
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2542-2804,2542-2758
DOI: 10.3126/bjhs.v4i1.23928