Table 6.

Monthly mean income and mean cost (in BDT) analysis before enrollment (excluding outliers).

	NPC	Oncology
Monthly mean income	14,324.32	22,677.42
Treatment cost	89,405.41	123,741.94
Investigation cost	36,501.35	34,148.39
Transportation cost	77,027.03	69,193.55
Costs of current ongoing medications	13,439.15	6993.29
Other variable costs	46,418.92	51,750.00
Total treatment expense (according to patient/caregiver)	262,791.85	285,827.16