Distant metastases in epidermoid cell carcinoma of the head and neck

✍ Scribed by Paul H. O'Brien; Rodney Carlson; Erwin A. Steubner Jr.; Charles T. Staley

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(197102)27:2<304::aid-cncr2820270209>3.0.co;2-1

✦ Synopsis

The pattern of metastases in patients who died of epidermoid cancer of the head and neck area, between 1954 and 1967, at the Veterans Administration Research Hospital, Chicago, was studied. One hundred fifty-tlwee patients died of epidermoid cancer of the head and neck; metastases below the clavicles were found in 46.7% of the patients. Fourteen patients, 9.1%, died of a second primary cancer; the lung and esophagus were the most common sites. Patients with distant metastases lived, on the average, 8 months longer from time of diagnosis to death than the patients without distal metastases.

HE FREQUENCY OF DISTANT METASTASES

T from epidermoid carcinoma of the head and neck area has been studied previously, with variations in procedure, criteria, and results. A survey of the literature indicates an increasing incidence of distant metastases in head and neck cancer.

In 1906, Crile5 reported a study done by Hutchings on 4,500 patients who had died of cancer of the head and neck, less than one per cent of whom had had visceral metastases.