Below are three statistics.
1. Privately billed claims related to oral cancer rose from 302,477 in 2011 to 486,328 in 2015.
2. Oral cancer claims occurred nearly three times as often in males (74 percent) as in females (26 percent) in the period between 2011 and 2015.
3. The greatest increase in claims occurred in throat cancer. The second greatest increase occurred in tongue cancer.
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