Table 2.
General awareness of the respondents towards oral cancer
| Questions | Medical students n (%) |
Dental students n (%) |
P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
| Have you heard of oral cancer? | 303 (86.3) | 48 (13.7) | 204 (99.0) | 2 (1.0) | <0.001 |
| Is oral cancer preventable? | 260 (74.1) | 91 (25.9) | 191 (92.7) | 15 (7.3) | <0.001 |
| Is oral cancer treatable? | 188 (53.6) | 163 (46.4) | 178 (86.4) | 28 (13.6) | <0.001 |
| Does risk of oral cancer increase with age? | 242 (68.9) | 109 (31.2) | 171 (83.0) | 35 (17.0) | <0.001 |
| Does oral cancer spread to other parts of the body? | 229 (65.2) | 122 (34.8) | 180 (87.4) | 26 (12.6) | <0.001 |
| Do you know the various ways of detecting oral cancer? | 112 (31.9) | 239 (68.1) | 150 (72.8) | 56 (27.2) | 0.093 |
Chi-square test, P < 0.05 (statistically significant).