Oral Cancer Screening at Workplace in India-One-year Follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Oral cancer remains the commonest form of cancer and cancer-related deaths among Indian males due to popularity of avoidable risk factors such as tobacco and alcohol use. A workplace oral cancer screening and tobacco cessation study was commenced on World No Tobacco Day 2007 at a chemical industry in rural Maharashtra.

Aims

The objectives were to screen the employees for oral neoplasia and to correlate it with their tobacco consumption pattern. In addition, the objective was to provide tobacco cessation services at the workplace.

Materials and methods

This is an interventional cohort study among 104 employees of a chemical industrial unit in rural Maharashtra. Naked eye examination of the oral cavity was performed for all employees by a doctor irrespective

SUBMITTER: Uplap P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3180939 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature