Public Awareness of Oral Cancer in Chennai, India

Dr Upendra Babu Khatri Dr Upendra Babu Khatri,Nor Syakirah Binti Shahroom Nor Syakirah Binti Shahroom

doi:10.25215/0303.175

Dr Upendra Babu Khatri Dr Upendra Babu Khatri, Nor Syakirah Binti Shahroom Nor Syakirah Binti Shahroom

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https://doi.org/10.25215/0303.175

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Abstract

Oral Cancer is one of the top killer disease. It is also known as cancer of lip, tongue and other parts of the mouth. Although oral cancer is difficult to discover because it is unnoticeable during its early stages, there should be a possibility of recovery. This cancer would have the chances to be treated and prevented it there is an early diagnosis about this disease. One of the factors of Oral Cancer is due to lack of awareness and knowledge about Oral Cancer including the causes and risk factors. Therefore, a questionnaire has been given to the public around Chennai to record the awareness of the public toward Oral Cancer based on the question given.

Highlights

Oral Cancer is one of the top killer disease
There are four questions related to the risk factors which were the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, cigarette smoking and Human papilloma virus (HPV) infection
More than 80% of respondents were aware that tobacco and cigarette smoking leads to Oral Cancer which both recorded 84 (83.2%) respondents each. 17 (16.8%) respondents believed that tobacco and cigarette smoking does not give any effect to Oral Cancer

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Introduction

Oral Cancer is one of the top killer disease. It is known as cancer of lip, tongue and other parts of the mouth. Oral cancer is difficult to discover because it is unnoticeable during its early stages, there should be a possibility of recovery This cancer would have the chances to be treated and prevented it there is an early diagnosis about this disease. Delay in the treatment or late diagnosis may lower the rate of survival of patients with oral cancer (Khandekar, Bagdey, & Tiwari, 2006). This may increase the development of tumour which prevent it from curing or the treatment may be costly for some patients. The objective of this study is to expose the knowledge of oral cancer including the risk factors, symptoms and treatments to the people to make sure that the percentage of oral cancer in India may be reduced to a satisfying percentage

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