Survival results for cancer of the tongue, Westminster Hospital, 1947-1976
| Autor: | Rosemary Nicholson, I. W. F. Hanham, R. F. Mould |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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medicine.medical_specialty business.industry General surgery Brachytherapy Age Factors Cancer General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Tongue Neoplasms Clinical trial medicine.anatomical_structure Sex Factors Tongue London medicine Initial treatment Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Female business Survival analysis Radium |
| Zdroj: | The British journal of radiology. 58(692) |
| ISSN: | 0007-1285 |
| Popis: | Cancer of the tongue is relatively rare, with only 5494 registrations in England and Wales for the decade 1971–1980 (OPCS Series MB1 publications, 1979–1983) and it is not often realised how few cases are available for analysis even from a large centre. From the records of the Westminster Hospital (excluding overseas patients who cannot be followed up and those cases who were treated for a recurrence having received their initial treatment elsewhere), 455 cancer of the tongue case histories for the 30-year period 1947–1976, followed up in 1984, were available for survival analysis. With this long follow-up period, for which 98% of the patients were traced to at least five years, largely due to assistance from the NHS Central Registry and the use of NHS numbers, this represents one of the largest studies for cancer of the tongue. It is of course recognised that retrospective surveys are not ideal and that planned prospective clinical trials are more informative. However, for relatively rare tumours such tr... |
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