Segundo tumor em pacientes com neoplasias de cabeça e pescoço

• Autor(a) principal: Devides, Nádia Juliana [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/113872
• topic: Cabeça - Câncer; Pescoço - Câncer; Radioterapia; Tumores - Diagnóstico; Neck Cancer; Head Cancer

Each year, more than 600.000 cases of head and neck cancer are diagnosed worldwide, someone with unfavorable prognosis due to the development of second primary tumors in the lungs, esophagus or in areas previously irradiated or operated. This study aims to determine the incidence of second primary tumors in patients with head and neck cancer in follow up 7 years , identify the time between diagnosis of the first primary and second primary tumor and survival time between initial diagnosis and death. We used medical records of 1061 patients with head and neck cancer service registry Hospital Cancer Hospital Amaral Carvalho de Jaú. In this study, 8.95% of patients with head and neck cancer developed second primary tumor of the esophagus and larynx. Most second primary tumors developed before five years of follow-up after diagnosis of the primary tumor. The average life span estimated for all patients who died was 1.8 years