Nagaraj Vezhavendhan, Priya S, Muthanandam Sivaramakrishnan, Devi M, Giri Umamaheswari, Babu M Aravind
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and Oral Microbiology, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth University, Pondicherry, India.
Private Practitioner, Pondicherry, India.
J Oral Maxillofac Pathol. 2023 Apr-Jun;27(2):282-286. doi: 10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_420_21. Epub 2023 Jul 13.
The National Institute of Health and Family Welfare (NIHFW) reports that India has the highest global prevalence of oral cancers. The incidence is significantly more in developing countries when compared to the developed countries. Early detection is key to increasing the survival rate of the patients. Important causes for this late diagnosis could be self-negligence, lack of patient awareness about the causes and asymptomatic and subtle clinical presentation of the lesions.
To assess the causes of self-neglect and awareness levels among oral cancer and pre-cancerous patients.
A cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted among pre-cancerous and cancerous patients.
A questionnaire with 16 closed-ended questions was framed relating to the causes of self-neglect and awareness of the patients. A total of 45 patients were selected by convenient sampling technique from the Institutional Tumour Board register of which 62 per cent were male patients and 38 per cent were female patients.
Data analysis for demographic data, patients' awareness, and causes of self-neglect about precancer and cancer was done using SPSS Version 10.
The present study concluded that the patients had adequate awareness that deleterious habits could lead to cancer but had a low level of awareness about the other causes of cancer, symptoms and management options available to treat cancer. The study result emphasizes that the government should plan for more cancer-screening camps in order to prevent the progression of cancer and to increase the awareness. ( 2015-05006 for funding the project. ICMR).
国家卫生与家庭福利研究所（NIHFW）报告称，印度口腔癌的全球患病率最高。与发达国家相比，发展中国家的发病率明显更高。早期发现是提高患者生存率的关键。导致这种诊断延迟的重要原因可能是自我疏忽、患者对病因缺乏认识以及病变无症状和临床表现不明显。
评估口腔癌及癌前病变患者自我疏忽的原因及认知水平。
对癌前病变和癌症患者进行了一项横断面问卷调查研究。
设计了一份包含16个封闭式问题的问卷，内容涉及自我疏忽的原因及患者的认知情况。采用方便抽样技术从机构肿瘤委员会登记册中选取了45名患者，其中62%为男性患者，38%为女性患者。
使用SPSS 10版对人口统计学数据、患者认知情况以及癌前病变和癌症自我疏忽的原因进行数据分析。
本研究得出结论，患者充分意识到有害习惯可能导致癌症，但对癌症的其他病因、症状及可用的治疗选择认知水平较低。研究结果强调，政府应规划更多的癌症筛查活动，以预防癌症进展并提高认知度。（该项目由ICMR资助，资助编号2015 - 05006）
