Affiliation:
1. Senior Resident, ESI , Joka, Kolkata
2. DNB(ENT), Consultant, Tata Main Hospital, Assistant Professor, Tata Medical College, Jamshedpur-831017
3. MBBS, DNB(ENT), Senior Resident, RG Kar Medical College and Hospital
4. DNB(ENT), Senior Resident, Manipal Tata Medical College,Jamshedpur-831017
Abstract
Introduction: Non-communicable diseases are progressively becoming the most important global health issue of the twenty-rst century, gaining
epidemic potential and thus has been rightly termed as modern epidemics. Of the important causes of mortality due to non-communicable diseases,
cancer has been implicated to be the second most common cause in developed countries. In adults, cancer is the leading cause of death. Aims: To
study the various etiopathological factors associated with development of oral and oropharyngeal malignancy. Material And Methods: The
present cross-sectional observational study was carried out among 63 patients over a period of 07 months, from November 2020 to May 2021 in an
industrial hospital of eastern India. Result: Most number of studied patients were having cancer site as oral tongue i.e., 16 (25.40%) followed by
tonsil & buccal mucosa i.e., 12 (19.05%). Conclusion: Patients in our study, were mostly having cancer site as oral tongue followed by buccal
mucosa & tonsil with mostly ulcer proliferative growth in appearance.
Subject
Aquatic Science,Oceanography,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Polymers and Plastics,Materials Science (miscellaneous),Communication,Cultural Studies,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Signal Processing,Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials,Biotechnology,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Instrumentation,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality,General Chemical Engineering,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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