✦ LIBER ✦

Presentation, treatment, and outcome of oral cavity cancer: A national cancer data base report

✍ Scribed by Gerry F. Funk; Lucy Hynds Karnell; Robert A. Robinson; Weining K. Zhen; Douglas K. Trask; Henry T. Hoffman

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 186 KB
Volume: 24
Category: Article
ISSN: 1043-3074
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10004

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Background

Oral cancer has been identified as a significant public health threat. Systematic evaluation of the impact of this disease on the US population is of great importance to health care providers and policy makers.

Methods

This study used the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) to evaluate associations between demographic and disease characteristics, treatment, and survival for patients with oral cavity cancer in the United States. Of patients diagnosed between 1985 and 1996, 58,976 were extracted from the NCDB. ANOVAs were performed on selected cross‐tabulations, and relative survival was used to calculate outcome.

Results

Median age of patients was 64.0 years. Men made up 60.2% of patients. Pathologic diagnosis was squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in 86.3% of cases. Younger patients had a much higher frequency of non‐SCC, and this was related to survival in these patients. African‐Americans (independent of income), lower income patients, and patients with higher grade disease were seen more frequently with advanced‐stage SCC. Five‐year relative survival for SCC cases was lower for older patients, men, and African‐Americans.

Conclusions

This study addressed many issues related to oral cancer that have been previously discussed in the literature. The demographic, site, stage, histologic, and survival data available for this large number of cases in the NCDB allowed an accurate characterization of the contemporary status of oral cancer in the United States. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

The national cancer data base report on

The national cancer data base report on cancer of the vagina

✍ William T. Creasman; Jerri Linn Phillips; Herman R. Menck 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 91 KB 👁 2 views

BACKGROUND. This study was conducted to determine practice patterns in the management of vaginal malignancy. ## METHODS. The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a large central registry of hospital case data, was reviewed for the 10-year period 1985-1994 for patients registered with a primary diagn

The national cancer data base report on

The national cancer data base report on race, age, and region variations in prostate cancer treatment

✍ Curtis J. Mettlin; Gerald P. Murphy; Myles P. Cunningham; Herman R. Menck 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 89 KB 👁 2 views

## BACKGROUND. Patterns of care for prostate cancer patients in the United States have changed as early detection has improved. The National Cancer Data Base of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer provides information about the treatment of patients in all age, race, and regional

The national cancer data base report on

The national cancer data base report on gastric carcinoma

✍ Scott A. Hundahl; Herman R. Menck; Edward G. Mansour; David P. Winchester 📂 Article 📅 1997 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 107 KB 👁 2 views

## BACKGROUND. The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) represents a national electronic registry system now encompassing almost 60% of incident cancers in the United States. In combination with other programs of the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, the NCDB offers a working example

The National Cancer Data Base Report on

The National Cancer Data Base Report on age, gender, treatment, and outcomes of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

✍ Louis F. Diehl; Lucy Hynds Karnell; Herman R. Menck 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 173 KB 👁 2 views

The natural history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is changing, although the reasons (potential changes in the disease's biology or in patterns in patient characteristics, treatment, or referral) are unclear. ## METHODS. This report uses National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) data, which reflect

National cancer data base report on canc

National cancer data base report on cancer of the head and neck: Acinic cell carcinoma

✍ Henry T. Hoffman; Lucy Hynds Karnell; Robert A. Robinson; John A. Pinkston; Herm 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB 👁 3 views

Background. Management of acinic cell carcinoma is based on reports of small numbers of cases accrued over several decades. Methods. The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) identified 1353 cases of acinic cell carcinoma of the head and neck for the years 1985 to 1995. Chi square analyses of selected c

National Cancer Data Base report on oste

National Cancer Data Base report on osteosarcoma of the head and neck

✍ Russell B. Smith; Louis W. Apostolakis; Lucy H. Karnell; Brenton B. Koch; Robert 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 105 KB

## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone malignancy overall but is encountered infrequently in the head and neck. Limited data are available on the significance of prognostics factors and results of therapy for patients with head and neck osteosarcoma (HNOS). It is kn