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Awareness of head and neck cancers in Saudi Arabia

A questionnaire based study

Saleh Alqaryan, Turki Aldrees, Sharif Almatrafi, Amjad Alharbi and Humaid Alhumaid
Saudi Medical Journal April 2020, 41 (4) 400-405; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.4.24990
Saleh Alqaryan
From the Department of Otolaryngology (Alqaryan), King Saud University, from the Pathology Department (Alharbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh; from the College of Medicine (Aldrees, Almatrafi), Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj; and from the College of Medicine (Alhumaid), Qassim University, Al Qassim, Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
MBBS
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Turki Aldrees
From the Department of Otolaryngology (Alqaryan), King Saud University, from the Pathology Department (Alharbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh; from the College of Medicine (Aldrees, Almatrafi), Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj; and from the College of Medicine (Alhumaid), Qassim University, Al Qassim, Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
BSc, MBBS
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Sharif Almatrafi
From the Department of Otolaryngology (Alqaryan), King Saud University, from the Pathology Department (Alharbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh; from the College of Medicine (Aldrees, Almatrafi), Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj; and from the College of Medicine (Alhumaid), Qassim University, Al Qassim, Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
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Amjad Alharbi
From the Department of Otolaryngology (Alqaryan), King Saud University, from the Pathology Department (Alharbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh; from the College of Medicine (Aldrees, Almatrafi), Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj; and from the College of Medicine (Alhumaid), Qassim University, Al Qassim, Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
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Humaid Alhumaid
From the Department of Otolaryngology (Alqaryan), King Saud University, from the Pathology Department (Alharbi), King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh; from the College of Medicine (Aldrees, Almatrafi), Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Al Kharj; and from the College of Medicine (Alhumaid), Qassim University, Al Qassim, Kingdom, Saudi Arabia
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