口腔口咽癌年轻组与年长组疗效比较

IMPACT OF AGE IN ORAL AND OROPHARGNGEAL CARCINOMA

口腔口咽癌是头颈部最常见的恶性肿瘤,我院自1978年1月至1982年12月共收治口腔口咽癌280例,全组随访至1988年9月底止,失访7例,随访率97.5％。现将两个年龄组的治疗结果及其有关因素分析比较如下:

A total of 280 cases of cancer of the orophangnx and the oral cavity were admitted for treatment from 1978 1982. Treatment results (5 year survival rates) of <<40 and>0 age groups were compared. In the oral carcinoma, they were 33.3% and 18.3%. In the orophargngeal carcinoma, they were 61.5% and 33.7%. In patients treated by radiation therapy only, they were 53.4% and 24.3%. Inpatients treated by other methods, they were 50.4% and 30.4%. Local failure and distant metastasis were the cases of failure in the young age group where as local failure, in the elder group. It is demonstrated that the young age group in China has a higher cancer incidence and also a better prognosis than that reported a broad.