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BETEL-QUID AND ARECA-NUT CHEWING - IARC Monographs

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Table 33. Chewing habit and percentage of oral cancer among all cancers<br />

Location Habit All cancers (years) Oral cancer Reference<br />

Papua New Guinea Betel quid without tobacco 1175 (1958–63) 209 (17.8%) Atkinson et al. (1964)<br />

Papua New Guinea Betel quid without tobacco 2300 (1958–65) (17.1%); 29 (9%) oral<br />

cancers were verrucous<br />

carcinoma<br />

Cooke (1969)<br />

Papua New Guinea Betel quid without tobacco 6186 (1958–73) 890 (14.4%) Henderson & Aiken (1979)<br />

Travancore, South India Betel quid with tobacco 1700 (5 years) 989 (58%) a Bentall (1908)<br />

Neyoor, South India Betel quid with tobacco 377 epithelial cancers<br />

(2 years)<br />

346 (91.5%) b Fells (1908)<br />

Mumbai, India Betel quid with tobacco 2880 carcinomas<br />

(1941–43)<br />

1000 (34.7%) c Khanolkar (1944)<br />

Mumbai, India (Parsees) Betel-quid chewing very rare 1705 (1941–65) 160 (9.4%) d Paymaster & Gangadharan<br />

(1970)<br />

Sri Lanka Betel quid 2344 (1928–48) 1130 (48.2%) e Balendra (1949)<br />

Thailand Betel quid 1100 155 (14.1%) f Piyaratn (1959)<br />

Malaysia (Indians) Betel quid with tobacco – 219 g Marsden (1960)<br />

Singapore Betel quid with tobacco 7131 (8%) h Muir (1962)<br />

Philippines Betel leaf, tobacco chewing,<br />

reverse cigarette smoking<br />

– (1957–61) 186 Tolentino et al. (1963)<br />

Malaysia Betel quid with and without<br />

tobacco<br />

4369 (1961–63) 476 (10.9%) i Ahluwalia & Duguid (1966)<br />

Indians Betel quid with tobacco 912 306 (33.6%)<br />

Malays Betel quid without tobacco 777 74 (9.5%)<br />

Bangladesh Betel quid 3650 672 (18.4%) j Huq (1965)<br />

Pakistan Betel quid with tobacco,<br />

cigarette smoking<br />

14 350 (1960–71) 2608 (18.2%) Zaidi et al. (1974)<br />

a<br />

Lip, tongue, buccal mucosa<br />

b<br />

Epithelial cancers of the buccal cavity<br />

c<br />

Lip, buccal mucosa, alveolus, tongue, palate<br />

d<br />

Lip, tongue, alveolus, floor of mouth, buccal mucosa, palate<br />

e<br />

Cheek, tongue, palate and tonsil, jaw, floor of mouth, pahrynx and larynx, lip<br />

f<br />

Lip, tongue, oral cavity<br />

g<br />

‘Betel cancers’<br />

h<br />

Buccal cavity and pharynx<br />

I<br />

Lip, tongue, floor of mouth, cheek, palate<br />

j<br />

Buccal cavity<br />

<strong>BETEL</strong>-<strong>QUID</strong> <strong>AND</strong> <strong>ARECA</strong>-<strong>NUT</strong> <strong>CHEWING</strong> 81

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