Prognostic Heterogeneity Between Oral Tongue and Gingivobuccal Tumours Based on Lymph Node Ratio and Number of Positive Nodes: A Survival Analysis.

Anoop Attakkil Aby K BabuSandeep VijayRaveena R NairK RatheesanAswin Mullath

Published in: Journal of maxillofacial and oral surgery (2024)

Lymph node ratio (> 0.06) and number of pathological positive nodes (> 2) provide a better prognostic stratification in node positive oral squamous cell carcinoma. Oral tongue and GBC tumours were found to have a differential impact on overall survival rate on the stratification based on LNR.

Keyphrases

lymph node
sentinel lymph node
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
free survival
single cell
radiation therapy
squamous cell carcinoma
locally advanced