Oral cancer in Brazil: dentists' lack of technical knowledge
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Oral cancer in Brazil: dentists' lack of technical knowledge.
Dear Editor, A careful reading of the article “Oral cancer from a health perspective promotion: experience of the diagnosis network in Ceará” by Sousa et al.1 published in Brazilian Oral Research sparked our interest in debating the reported results. As stated by Sousa et al.,1 oral cancer prognosis is rare in Brazil. We have recently published an article showing that the 5-year survival rate i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Oral Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1807-3107
DOI: 10.1590/1807-3107bor-2015.vol29.0069