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Background: Worldwide, around 1 million individuals develop cancer each year; this figure is expected to increase to 15 million in 2020. India has cancer related deaths around 7, 84,821, of which males are 9.81%, females 9.42%, Study in India show that if a patient is female, 73 % of the overall difference in cumulative expenditures [? 32,446 (PPP$12978)] is explained by gender difference in expenditures among patients suffering from common cancers. This gender differences, among common cancers vary by different demographic and economic characteristics. So, the present study is planned to study presence, magnitude and determinants of the expenditure differences with reference to gender. Objective: 1. To study the presence and magnitude of the expenditure differences 2. To study the factors associated with expenditure inequality with Reference to gender on adult cancer patients. 3. To calculate the average expenditure of female cancer patients Materials and Methods: The present community based cross sectional study is carried out in regional cancer hospital with objectives of studying to study the presence and magnitude of the expenditure differences, to study the factors associated with expenditure inequality, to calculate the average expenditure of female cancer patients with reference to gender with the help of predesigned questionnaire, we assessed socio-demographic data. (chi square, ANOVA, Tukey Post Hoc, t test was applied wherever required. P <0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Results: There is significant �gender� discrimination seen with total expenditure and at various levels of treatment (like IPD, OPD, Medical, Non-medical etc) in terms of expenditure.