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ArticleBritish journal of cancer2025

A call for action: closing the gap on ethnic disparities in oral cavity cancer care.

Nikila Patil, Zainab Lal, Thiagarajan Sridhar, Manish Pareek, Harriet S Walter

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Article in British journal of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nikila PatilDivision of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6763-2096
Zainab LalDevelopment Centre for Population Health, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Thiagarajan SridharDivision of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Manish PareekNIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
Harriet S WalterDivision of Cancer Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. hw191@le.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2618-711X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The incidence of oral cavity cancers in the UK is rising. Asian/Asian British ethnic groups and socioeconomically deprived groups are at highest risk with some evidence of worse disease outcomes in South Asian individuals receiving radiotherapy. This variation in incidence and outcomes underscores the urgent need for action.

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Healthcare DisparitiesMouth NeoplasmsAsian PeopleEthnicityHumansUnited Kingdom

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PMID40931127
PMCPMC12480978

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