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Asbestos and Head and neck cancer

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Asbestos and Head and neck cancer

Asbestos vs. Head and neck cancer

Asbestos is a set of six naturally occurring silicate minerals, which all have in common their eponymous asbestiform habit: i.e. long (roughly 1:20 aspect ratio), thin fibrous crystals, with each visible fiber composed of millions of microscopic "fibrils" that can be released by abrasion and other processes. Head and neck cancer is a group of cancers that starts in the mouth, nose, throat, larynx, sinuses, or salivary glands.

Similarities between Asbestos and Head and neck cancer

Asbestos and Head and neck cancer have 2 things in common (in Unionpedia): Carcinogen, Lung cancer.

Carcinogen

A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis, the formation of cancer.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.

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Asbestos and Head and neck cancer Comparison

Asbestos has 208 relations, while Head and neck cancer has 153. As they have in common 2, the Jaccard index is 0.55% = 2 / (208 + 153).

References

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