India recorded 75,290 fatalities and 135,929 new cases in 2020. Some other reports specify that Indiais rankedamong the three most common forms of cancer in India, and oral cancer is amajorconcern on the subcontinent. With an age-adjusted rate of...
In Gujarat, India, 57,518 industrial workers over 35 years old were examined for oral lesions. At a two-year interval, 43,654 workers were re-examined. Biopsies were taken from 13,223 lesions. In the initial examination, 29 oral cancers were diagnosed, representing a prevalence rate of 50...
Among women, the highest incidence is observed in India. Oral/pharyngeal ratio is everywhere systematically lower in men compared to women. Recent trends for oral cancer are more favourable than those for pharyngeal cancer in developing countries. In developed countries, trends in oral cancer appears...
In the rural health care delivery system in India, basic health workers (BHW) go house-to-house to help in the preventive and therapeutic measures of certain diseases. Some 53 BHW were trained by the dentists of the research team for examining the oral cavity of high-risk individuals and ca...
Alcohol intake and oral cavity cancer risk among men in a prospective study in Kerala, India The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of alcohol drinking and patterns of consumption in oral cancer incidence and mortality in a cohort study usin... MDC Cancela,K Ramadas,JM Fayette,.....
Oral cancer ranks in the top three of all cancers in India, which accounts for over thirty per cent of all cancers reported in the country and oral cancer control is quickly becoming a global health ...
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Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) there were over 266,000 new cases of intra-oral cancer in the year 2000, with the majority (64%) occurring in males.2 The world age-standardised incidence rate (the number of new cases per 100,000 per year) was 6.42 for males and 3.27 for ...
India experiences one of the highest incidence rates of oral cancer globally [1]. Oral cancer is the leading cancer type in men and the third most common cancer in women [2]. In India, oral cancer is usually detected at advanced stages and the five year survival rate for advanced oral ca...
subcontinent accounts for one-third of the oral cancer burden in the world. Oral cancer is the most common cancer among men in India and the second cancer among Pakistani women. The lowest rates are found in Western Africa and Eastern Asia. North African countries also present low incidences....