Prognostic factors for oral squamous cell carcinoma
Keywords:
NEOPLASIAS DE LA BOCA/diagnóstico, NEOPLASIAS DE CABEZA Y CUELLO/diagnóstico, PRONÓSTICO.Abstract
Introduction: the determination of the prognosis allows estimating the probabilities of the various events that may develop during the evolution of the disease. This estimate affects the decision of treatment and preventive activities to modify the prognosis of a disease. The universe consisted of 42 diagnosed patients who met the inclusion criteria.
Objective: to determine the prognostic factors in the clinical evolution of oral squamous cell carcinoma.
Methods: a prospective longitudinal analytical observational cohort study was carried out in patients treated in the consultation of maxillofacial surgery of the General Provincial Teaching Hospital “Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola” from Ciego de Ávila, between January 2014 and June 2016. Variables of prognostic significance related to the patient and the tumor were analyzed, and the equation that determined the prognostic factors in the evolution of the disease was established. The ethical precepts were fulfilled.
Results: patients aged 60-69 years (30,95 %) and male (61,90 %) prevailed, with anatomical tumor locations on the upper lip (42,86 %) and cheek mucosa (23,81 %). The unfavorable evolution appeared in those who consumed alcohol and had associated diseases; for which these were the determined prognostic variables.
Conclusions: male patients over 50 years of age predominated, with the lip as the most affected anatomical location. The prognostic equation was established by means of which alcohol consumption and associated diseases were determined as the prognostic factors involved in the clinical evolution of the disease.Downloads
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