title: Oral cancer in northern Thailand.
abstract: Statistical material accumulated at the Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, revealed that oral cancer ranked third in both sexes during 1975-1984 and 1981 alone. In 1987 oral cancer had dropped to rank 7 of cancers of all sites. Since there is evidence of disappearance of traditional chewing and smoking habits in Northern Thailand this may result in changing incidence of oral cancer in this province.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dental Surgery/Oral Surgery (North), Free University, Berlin, FRG.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Reichart
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Westhausen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Theetranont
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009062:Mouth Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects; D013785:Thailand / Q000453:epidemiology; D014030:Tobacco, Smokeless / Q000009:adverse effects