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ENT Cancer in the West Midlands Region of England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Mark Wake
Mark Wake*
Affiliation:
East Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham
*
ENT Department, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH
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Abstract

In the period 1978–1986, 2907 cases of ear, sinonasal and throat (ENT) cancers were registered in the computer data base of the West Midlands Cancer Registry, Birmingham. These cases have been examined by site and subsite in this article.Squamous cell carcinomas continue to dominate ENT cancer with notable male predominance. Histology, male/female ratios and time trend analysis are reported for this group of cancers.

Keywords

CancerOtolaryngology

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The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 107 , Issue 4 , April 1993 , pp. 313 - 315
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Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1993

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