Five-years survival of Brazilian patients with lip, oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer

Abstract

Abstract Objective: Worldwide, oral cancers represent the sixth most common oncological malignancy, and the incidence of oral cancer has increased over the last decade. Based on this, we conducted a study to evaluate five-years survival of Brazilian patients with lip, oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer. Materials and Methods: We used data from the Hospital Cancer Registry at Hospital do Câncer de Muriaé to analyze cancer cases from 2010 to 2016. Results: Majority of our sample did not complete elementary school (75.90%) and the under-60 age group represented the largest population (53.30%). Alcoholism and smoking were habits present in in 40.51% and 55.90% of the cases, respectively. In 51.27% of cases, patients had advanced disease with invasion of adjacent tissues (staging IV). Five-years oral cancer survival was 72.08%. In addition, five-years survival of patients in staging I was significantly higher compared to patients in staging IV. Conclusion: Taken together, we found that patients in staging IV and above 79 years of age have the lowest survival. Increasing access to health care and prevention strategies are fundamental and necessary to change the current scenario.