Fatores prognósticos do carcinoma espinocelular de boca

• Autor(a) principal: Basso, Juliana Maria [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/202970; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2018-11-19/000908725.pdf
• topic: Carcinoma de células escamosas; Boca; Prognóstico; Carcinoma, Squamous Cell

Knowing the clinical behavior of diseases, including cancer, is the purpose of medical specialties, accounting for unknown points of pathophysiology, we have a way of defining the best therapeutic approaches for its control and cure. The prognosis of a patient with carcinoma of the mouth may be influenced by several factors, in addition to clinical staging. Among the main factors we will discuss about the demographics (age, sex and race) and clinical factors (smoking, alcohol consumption, perineural invasion and vascular invasion, primary tumor location, recurrence, etc.). This study aims to review the literature to examine the various prognostic factors, related to carcinoma of the mouth. Can be concluded that there is an independent factor responsible for good or poor prognosis of patients with this cancer. Among the authors there is some controversy, but the factor that has not received questioning or criticism by the authors was the TNM classification and clinical staging. Currently, the best hope of improved prognosis is early diagnosis