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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4527</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2022.141213</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Clinicopathological\Characteristics and Related Risk Factors of Oral Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study&#13;
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</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ahmed</surname><given-names>Naveed</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rai</surname><given-names>Deepak</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Ali</surname><given-names>Sheikh Sajjad</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kumar</surname><given-names>Ashok</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Aftab</surname><given-names>Ali Akber</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Haqdad</surname><given-names>Mehwish</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>17</day><month>06</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>2)</volume><issue/><fpage>78</fpage><lpage>83</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Oral cancer is the most prevalent and globally fifteenth-most reported cancer worldwide, as per International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Several forms of oral malignancies are recognized clinically and pathologically, although oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) account for 90% of all oral cancers. Aim: To find out whether socioeconomic factors and clinicopathological traits may play a role in the development of oral squamous cell carcimoma (OSCC). Methodology: A total of 197 individuals were incorporated in the study who were diagnosed and treated in the ENT department. A systematic questionnaire was used to collect clinicopathological and socioeconomic data. Descriptive analysis was used for socioeconomic status (SES) and demographics, whereas regression analysis was used to establish a link between SES and tobacco chewing practices, tumor size, and stage. Study design: A cross-sectional study. Place and Duration: This study was conducted at Jhalawan Medical College Khuzdar Pakistan from January 2021 to December 2021. Results: We found a higher prevalence of males, -+++-++-and the average age of patients with OSCC was 43.6 __ampersandsignplusmn; 12.2 years. Most of the individuals had a low SES status, and 76.6% chewed tobacco and related substances regularly. Tobacco chewing behaviors or consumption of Smoke Less Tobacco (SLTs) products were substantially connected with gender (male) and SES (p__ampersandsignlt;0.05). The late-stage presentation of OSCC was strongly linked with middle age, tobacco chewing behaviors, and education (=0.05). Conclusion: Most OSCC cases were male patients in their forties from low socioeconomic backgrounds who had a long his tory of tobacco chewing practices. Tobaccochewers__ampersandsignrsquo; most prevalent tumor site was the buccal mucosa, and the majority had advanced malignancies.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Buccal cavity</kwd><kwd> Chewing Tobacco</kwd><kwd> Low socioeconomic status</kwd><kwd> Oral cancer</kwd><kwd> Tumor site</kwd><kwd> Smoke Less Tobacco</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
