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...

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Autores principales: Sankhla, Bharat, Kachhwaha, Khushboo, Hussain, Sayed Yawer, Saxena, Shikha, Sireesha, Sundaragiri Krishna, Bhargava, Akshay
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Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2018
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6312563/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30627385
http://dx.doi.org/10.22122/ahj.v10i1.537
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author Sankhla, Bharat
Kachhwaha, Khushboo
Hussain, Sayed Yawer
Saxena, Shikha
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Bhargava, Akshay
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description 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 serious health consequences. The aim of this review is to increase the attention to complete ban of tobacco use, awareness, knowledge, and beliefs of public about the harms of not only gutkha but also all other tobacco products and also to promote the intentions to quit the habits.
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spelling pubmed-63125632019-01-09 Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Effect of Gutkha: A Fast-growing Smokeless Tobacco Sankhla, Bharat Kachhwaha, Khushboo Hussain, Sayed Yawer Saxena, Shikha Sireesha, Sundaragiri Krishna Bhargava, Akshay Addict Health Review Article 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 serious health consequences. The aim of this review is to increase the attention to complete ban of tobacco use, awareness, knowledge, and beliefs of public about the harms of not only gutkha but also all other tobacco products and also to promote the intentions to quit the habits. Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2018-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6312563/ /pubmed/30627385 http://dx.doi.org/10.22122/ahj.v10i1.537 Text en © 2018 Kerman University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Effect of Gutkha: A Fast-growing Smokeless Tobacco
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title_fullStr Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Effect of Gutkha: A Fast-growing Smokeless Tobacco
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title_short Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Effect of Gutkha: A Fast-growing Smokeless Tobacco
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