West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), APOCP's West Asia Chapter. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention 1513-7368 15 4 2014 04 01 Risk Factors and Costs of Oral Cancer in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Delhi 1659 1665 28806 EN Journal Article 1970 01 01 The present study conducted with 100 oral cancer patients at a private tertiary care hospital inDelhidemonstrated that stage III cancer was associated with longer use of tobacco and poor oral hygiene. Therewas also statistically significant association (p<.05) between consumption of tobacco and alcohol. More than 60%treatment expenditure was on surgery followed by accommodation (9%) and investigations (8%). The effect oftobacco was well known among patients as 76% of the patients knew that common cancer in tobacco cheweris ‘oral cancer’, 22% of the patients however responded that they did not know which cancer is common intobacco chewers. 58% said that they learnt about ill effects of tobacco from media while 24% said they learntfrom family and friends. Out of 78 tobacco users, 60 (77%) said that they never received help to quit tobaccowhile 18(23%) have received help to quit. https://journal.waocp.org/article_28806_845416f832995bb465cf414cee80330a.pdf