Table 2. The direct costs of oral cancer management in Iran in 2014.

Cost type	Number of patients	Direct medical costs
		Per patient	Total	percentage
Diagnosis	1380	82	113,160	0.5
Stages I and II (surgery and radiotherapy)	1,210	2,225	2,691,027	9.9
Stages III and IV(surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy	1,814	10,532	19,108,982	70
Recurrent	847	1,485	4,491,941	16.5
Follow-up	3,024	291	879,391	3.1
Total cost			27,284,501	100