{"entity":{"id":"chaturvedi-pankaj","kind":"person","name":"Pankaj Chaturvedi","aka":["pankaj-chaturvedi"],"tldr":"A surgeon and public-health campaigner whose work links oral cancer to tobacco and drives prevention policy in India.","summary":"Pankaj Chaturvedi is a head and neck surgical oncologist and Director of the Centre for Cancer Epidemiology at the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. He combines surgery with epidemiology and public-health advocacy, and his work linking oral cancer to tobacco and areca nut drives prevention policy in India. His publications include a prospective study of ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration and sentinel node biopsy in staging early oral cancer, an analysis of optimum surgical margins in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue, and a study of lymphatic metastasis in relation to the submandibular gland in oral cavity cancer. His interests are head and neck surgery, tobacco control, cancer prevention and epidemiology. 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