Results of Irradiation Treatment of Cancer of the Lip: Analysis of 636 Cases from 1926–1936

Autor:	C. J. Christy, B. F. Schreiner
Rok vydání:	1942
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Lower lip Upper lip Cancer Primary lesion medicine.disease Surgery stomatognathic diseases medicine.anatomical_structure stomatognathic system Tongue Lip cancer medicine Carcinoma Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging business
Zdroj:	Radiology. 39:293-297
ISSN:	1527-1315 0033-8419
Popis:	A survey of the records of the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases from Jan. 1, 1926, to Dec. 31, 1935, showed 636 consecutive cases of cancer of the lip treated by irradiation. All of these cases were proved microscopically to be squamous-cell carcinoma. As a result of this study, the following pertinent facts were ascertained. Lip cancer occurred about 38 times as frequently in men as in women, and about 29 times as frequently on the lower as on the upper lip. Of the total group of patients, 619 were men and 17 were women. The upper lip was involved 22 times, in 2 cases in females; the lower lip was involved 614 times, in 15 cases in females. Multiple lesions occurred in 12 cases. Six patients had two primary lesions involving the lower lip; 5 had primary lesions involving the upper and lower lip, and 1 had a primary lesion involving the upper and lower lip and also the tongue. The youngest patient was 28 and the oldest 92 years of age. One hundred and ninety-eight cases occurred in the ...
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