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Improved survival among oral cancer patients: findings from a retrospective study at a tertiary care cancer centre in rural Kerala, India

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1550-z

Published Online: 2019-01-11

Published Print: 2019-12

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Thavarool, Sajith Babu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4866-0473
Muttath, Geetha

Nayanar, Sangeetha

Duraisamy, Karthickeyan

Bhat, Prasanth

Shringarpure, Kalpita

Nayak, Priyakanta

Tripathy, Jaya Prasad

Thaddeus, Alfonso

Philip, Sairu

B, Satheesan
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Received: 5 September 2018

Accepted: 23 December 2018

First Online: 11 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethics approval to conduct the study was obtained from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) of the Malabar Cancer Centre, Thalassery, Kerala and The Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France.

: As the study included only routinely collected hospital data without involving any personal interview or intervention, written consent by the study participants was waived off by the ethics committees.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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