Profile of oral cancer cases treated in a high-complexity oncology center

• Autor(a) principal: Ulinski, Sandra Lucia Vieira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Yamashita, Jaqueline Akemi, Siqueira, Jéssica Alves Gonçalves, Bistaffa, Alisson Gabriel Ildefonso, Amarante Neto, Antônio Plácido Peixoto do, Romaniezen, Luiz Wanderley, Poleti, Marcelo Lupion, Fernandes, Thais Maria Freire
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v10i11.19929
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/19929
• topic: Carcinoma de células escamosas; Epidemiologia; Fatores de risco.; Carcinoma de células escamosas; Epidemiología; Factores de riesgo.; Carcinoma, squamous cell; Epidemiology; Risk factors.

Objective: To describe the epidemiological profile of oral cancer patients treated at a regional referral hospital for cancer treatment in Paraná. Methods: This retrospective, cross-sectional study involved a population of 274 people with oral cancer, treated from January 2007 to January 2014. Data were collected from hospital records and supplemented with admission forms from hospital. Results: It was identified that 75.2% were male, and 81.5% were white. The average age was 59 years old, ranging from 19 to 88 years old, with greater involvement for the age group over 60 years old with 48.2% of cases. The people most affected by the disease performed activities related to agriculture (21.9%) and activities related to production of industrial goods and services (20.0%). The most prevalent histological type was squamous cell carcinoma in 90.2% of cases, followed by basal cell carcinoma (3.3%) and adenocarcinoma (2.9%). Conclusions: The most affected individuals were men, white, with an average age of 59 years, with a profession related to agriculture, with lesions located mainly on the lip.