Bharat Sankhla

[ 1 ] - Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Effect of Gutkha: A Fast-growing Smokeless Tobacco

Oral cancer is a highly lethal disease and one of the most debilitating and disfiguring of all malignancies in the world. According to Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2010 report, 60% of tobacco users in India use only smokeless tobacco. Among 206 million smokeless tobacco users, 65.1 million are consuming gutkha. In recent years, gutkha is recognized as a life threatening disorder with the ...