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LIFE09200604007 Tabish - Homi Bhabha National Institute

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Results<br />

Fig. 6: Frequency of tobacco and alcohol habit in MPN patient samples. The subjects had mixed type<br />

of tobacco habit including smoking, tobacco chewing, pan (betel quid). One subject had a habit of areca<br />

nut chewing and four subjects had a habit of alcohol along with tobacco.<br />

The patients accrued were highly heterogeneous with respect to tumour sites.<br />

Major sites of first and second primary cancer included various regions of buccal<br />

mucosa (lip, upper and lower alveolus, floor of mouth, retromolar trigone (RMT),<br />

gingivobuccal sulcus (GBS) and cheeks), hard palate, tongue, tonsil, larynx,<br />

oesophagus, parapharyngeal carcinoma and nasal columella (Fig. 7, Fig. 8).<br />

Fig. 7: Frequency of first primary cancers in study subjects (n=24). Values in parenthesis denote the<br />

actual number out of 24 subjects in each category.<br />

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