Declining oral cancer rates in Sri Lanka: are we winning the war after being at the top of the cancer league table?

A Ariyawardana, S Warnakulasuriya - Oral diseases, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Sri Lanka, and based on our understanding NCCP cancer data are retrieved from hospital
statistics. Their reports indicate that cancer … or miscoding for oral cancer in more recent years. …

Smokeless tobacco use in Sri Lanka

LC Somatunga, DN Sinha… - … Journal of Cancer, 2012 - journals.lww.com
To comprehensively review the issues of smokeless tobacco use in Sri Lanka. This review
paper is based on a variety of sources including Medline, WHO documents, Ministry of Health …

[PDF][PDF] … -Control Study to Assess The Relationship between Betel Quid Chewing and Oral Cancer Incidence Among Adult Male And Female Population in Sri Lanka

TAKA Thennakoon - pgia.pdn.ac.lk
… semi-urban people in Sri Lanka. Oral cancer is very common in Sri Lanka, mostly among
men. … of betel quid chewing on oral cancer incidence among the adult population in Sri Lanka. …

Descriptive study of 896 Oral squamous cell carcinomas from the only University based Oral Pathology Diagnostic Service in Sri Lanka

PR Jayasooriya, TN Pitakotuwage, BRRN Mendis… - BMC oral health, 2016 - Springer
Sri Lankan cancer incidence data for year 2005, compiled by the National Cancer Control
Programme, cancer … In our study sample (Table 2) majority of the patients who received …

Salivary interleukin levels in oral squamous cell carcinoma and oral epithelial dysplasia: findings from a sri Lankan study

NS Piyarathne, MM Weerasekera, PFD Fonseka… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
… of the study cohort are presented in Table 1. There were no … risk factors or demographics
among study groups (Table 1). … anatomical locations of the lesions are presented in Table 2. …

The incidence and mortality of lip and oral cavity cancer and its relationship to the 2012 Human Development Index of Asia

A Tiyuri, A Mohammadian-Hafshejani… - Biomedical Research …, 2017 - biomedpress.org
… rates of the cancer, according to sex, of the Asian countries are presented in Table 1 . The
… , Maldives, Sri Lanka and Nepal, which has led to an increased risk of lip and oral cavity …

Epidemiology of oral cancer in Asia in the past decade-an update (2000-2012)

SVK Rao, G Mejia, K Roberts-Thomson… - … journal of cancer …, 2013 - journal.waocp.org
… Declining oral cancer rates in Sri Lanka: are we winning the war after being at the top of
the cancer league table? Oral Dis, 17, 636-41. Ariyoshi Y, Shimahara M, Omura K, et al (2008). …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the molecular subclasses and stage-specific genes of oral cancer: A bioinformatics analysis

ARF Shafana, GAI Uwanthika… - Cancer Treatment and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… expression dataset of 56 oral cancer patients from Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom to …
Table 1. This data has been selected in particular, as it possessed the samples from Sri Lanka

Prolonged breastfeeding reduces risk of breast cancer in Sri Lankan women: A case–control study

M De Silva, U Senarath, M Gunatilake, D Lokuhetty - Cancer epidemiology, 2010 - Elsevier
… Selected characteristics of breast cancer cases and controls are presented in Table 1. Age
was a matched variable in the sample, thus distribution of participants by age groups were …

Patterns of childhood cancer mortality: America, Asia and Oceania

F Levi, C La Vecchia, F Lucchini, E Negri… - … Journal of Cancer, 1995 - Elsevier
Table 1 gives the average annual population at ages O-14 … in other countries, such as Sri
Lanka and Puerto Rico, but … for Cancer Research and the Italian League against cancer. This …