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What are the main risk factors of throat cancer?
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Throat ca: Smokers , alcohol drinking, severe acid stomach reflux, prior radiation therapy to the neck, family hx of throat cancer, black ethnicity, male.
Answered 4/5/2020
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Tobacco+alcohol: Tobacco, alcohol and hpv infection.
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