Low Survival Rates of Oral and Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Anna Carolina Omena Vasconcellos Le CampionCamila Maria Beder Ribeiro Girish PanjwaniRonir Raggio LuizFrancisco Feliciano da Silva JúniorHerbert Charles Silva BarrosKarine de Cássia Batista Dos SantosStefania Jeronimo FerreiraLucio Souza GonçalvesSonia Maria Soares FerreiraPublished in: International journal of dentistry (2017)
The findings suggest that patients who underwent surgery had a greater survival rate compared with those that did not. The low survival rates and the high percentage of patients diagnosed at advanced stages demonstrate that oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients should receive more attention.