Association of smokeless tobacco with oral cancer: A review of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Various primary studies and systematic reviews have been conducted to explain the association between smokeless tobacco and oral cancer. This study aims to consolidate and summarize the risk estimates from various systematic reviews with or without meta-analysis to provide the spectrum of estimates on the association between smokeless tobacco use and oral cancer.

Methods

A comprehensive literature search was done on various databases (PubMed, Google Scholar, IndMED, and TOXLINE) by two of the authors independently. Both qualitative and quantitative data extraction and analysis were performed for the included systematic reviews. Range of risk estimates was obtained and analyzed as quantitative findings due to the limitation of an overview of reviews for the poole

SUBMITTER: Asthana S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205108 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature