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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a component of the World Health Organization (WHO), estimated that there were 484,628 new cases of upper aerodigestive tract carcinoma worldwide in 2002 [1]. The IARC also estimated that there were 261,784 deaths due to this cause in 2002 [1].
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Johnson, D.Y., Wadhwa, S., Johnson, F.E. (2013). Upper Aerodigestive Tract Carcinoma. In: Johnson, F., et al. Patient Surveillance After Cancer Treatment. Current Clinical Oncology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-969-7_5
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