Dr Bhawna Gupta left India to pursue a career in public health research, but her work is all in the name of fighting an epidemic back in her homeland.
According to the Griffith University PhD graduate, the Indian subcontinent accounts for a third of the global burden of cancers of the lip and oral cavity. Dr Gupta adds that in India the disease is the most common malignancy among men and the third most common among women.
“Cancers of the mouth and tongue, taken together, overshadow cancer of the lung in most of the Indian population-based cancer registries,” says Dr Gupta.
“I conducted a hospital-based case-control study in the city of Pune in western India. The data was collected by face-to-face interviews and by intra-oral examinations on 187 oral cancer cases and 240 controls.
“This study aimed to quantify the associations between oral hygiene habits, dietary factors, chewing/smoking tobacco and alcohol consumption on the
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